Sorry this is only vaguely related to leftist politics.
So have you seen all these fuckin ads everywhere advertising how great it is to work for these companies? They're like you can earn up to $1500 a week and you work on your own time etc etc.
But it can't be that simple right? What's the catch here? Porky's gotta have some shit up his sleeve
My hours has been cut recently and I'm considering it even though I fucking hate driving
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All the costs, wear and tear etc are on you. Apart from a few super peak hours when you actually analyze it it's a pretty shit wage at best.
Google Uber and Jacobin and you'll get like 20 articles that answer all your questions
yeah uber is shit, treats their drivers like shit, and the second the automation jobs are done they'll be discarded too
and the cities like pittsburgh holding their headquarters are decaying and losing housing to their bullshit
They're normalizing the "gig economy" where everyone is going to be hustling for supplementary income constantly, all while working towards complete automation, interesting years ahead.
the catch is:
also this. its all part of making underemployed overqualified young people look like they're a part of the economy even tho they're just supplementing it until
they can be completely phased out. its a source of income for hordes of out of college indebted wage cucks and is a nice distraction from the reailty of no career or steady income for plebs. its a ruse nothing more. laugh and carry on
Fuck this makes me really angry. Why can't the app just be a public thing and I get the full money for driving people around. It doesn't make sense they get most of the pay when all they do is run a fuckin app
the catch is that consumers have been disciplined by capitalism to snear at proles. User reviews will fuck u over.
Basically all the responsibility of your own property falls onto you because it's not company property. You wouldn't actually make much with it. Although technically there are ways to makee more such as taking part in an auto wrapped advertising through a different company to get paid for driving in general.
you might have to sleep in a parking lot between shifts
There are 5 more parts btw.
Uber is literally a gigantic monopoly scheme. No idea why reddit loves them so much.
When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.
The vast majority of Uber’s full-time drivers return home to their beds at the end of a day’s work. But all over the country, there are many who don’t. These drivers live near, but not in, expensive cities where they can tap higher fares, ferrying wealthier, white-collar workers to their jobs and out to dinner—but where they can’t make enough money to get by, even with longer hours. To maximize their time, drivers find supermarket parking lots, airports and hostels where they catch several hours of sleep after taking riders home from bars and before starting the morning commute.
marketers/social media reps basically drive reddit content
The catch is you exploited. Try to form a taxi coop to fight back.
Did you even read the article? The coop was only successful because Uber and Lyft left. Damn
Very few actually earn that, the more crowded areas with more poor people actually pay the least.
All costs are on you. You pay for gas, oil, car repairs, etc. They have no obligation to you if you get a flat tire and can't work anymore. Uber is okay if you're just using it as a carpool service to places you already go. If you want it as a career you'll never make enough money to pay off random car happenings plus all maintenance.
Uber's goal is to have all self-driving cars so they don't actually have to pay anybody.
I guess some lefty programmer could make an app like that but it would need some press and brand recognition before people would actually use it. You would probably have to have a certain number of drivers willing to participate before you launch as well.
Austin Coop Taxi uses a program called CABiT, why not try that?
And they only left because the co-op fought them
It's 100% related to leftist politics.