3.37 median wage for uber/lyft driver
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft-driver-wages-median-report I should prob tip more. Also how is this sustainable?
the Guardian
Uber is the Walmart of transportation. Wage slavery at its best. In fact, they have a leg up over Walmart, they don't even treat the people they exploit as employees.
If two people enter a business arrangement, where person A says they'll pay person B an amount of $X for legally doing some task, and person B agrees to do this, who exactly is getting exploited or harmed in this situation? And how do we know you have a better solution? The $15 minimum wage in Seattle was found by the city to cause workers to lose more money on average. Do you have some other solutions?
That’s the same argument made for kids working 12 hours a day for a dollar!
When will the people who write such articles realize that the uber/lyft DO NOT employ drivers.. drivers use uber platform to do business.. Anology: Are people who post YouTube videos employees of Google ? Should they get minimum wage before Google makes money from ads generated by those videos ? I don’t think so because YouTube is just a platform
You’re right. They’re more like a less ethical Amway.
Fake study data. Made for lawyers.
If drivers make so little, I'm much less excited about Uber's and Lyft's growth opportunities with self driving cars. I always so that as their end game and why they are willing to loss billions to capture the market, but if a driver only makes $3.5 an hour, while it's a significant jump.in margins for them it's definitely not the crazy growth I expected. (Thought it's more along the lines of $12-$15)
Uber people: Do you feel bad about this? Do you realize you are building a platform to exploit other less fortunate people? Are you afraid this will soon burst and so goes the valuation?
"Other studies and surveys have found higher hourly earnings for Uber drivers, in part because there are numerous ways to report income and to calculate costs and time and miles spent on the job" ... Well ok then.
It's sustainable as long as enough drivers think it is.