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Re:Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-sh... by VanTheBrand on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:09PM (#48285993)
Except that’s not how it played out at all! Fast Food employment did not go down but wages did go up 11%.

Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the wage increase, and the employers ate (pun intended) the other half of the cost.

Here is the study by UC Berkeley from this April

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects...

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Re:Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-sh... by opo on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:30AM (#48290059)
Other papers have found both employment losses and more significant price increases. A discussion of the topic was in the Ask Economics subreddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1smjx29/was_c...

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