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salamanderss | 2 years ago

The Uber driver is basically a business owner fulfilling contracts to customers brokered through an online clearinghouse. They're hyper capitalists exploiting regulatory advantages over taxi drivers then sad face at the downsides to that.

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throw_m239339|2 years ago

> The Uber driver is basically a business owner fulfilling contracts to customers brokered through an online clearinghouse. They're hyper capitalists exploiting regulatory advantages over taxi drivers then sad face at the downsides to that.

No they are not, otherwise they could freely set the fare and the market would decide the final price, not Uber or Lyft. Clearly that's not the case here.

salamanderss|2 years ago

I would argue Lyft/Uber are merely shitty brokers. You can definitely contract with a broker to use take it or leave it price fixing, it's just not a quality I would particularly desire.