Is Uber a paradigm of labor exploitation in the 21st century?
Is Uber a paradigm of labor exploitation in the 21st century?
Camden Moore
Anthony Sanders
Uber's pretty interesting since they actually convinced people to work in a situation that makes no sense when you look at financial payoff vs wear and tear costs on vehicles and the insurance liability falling on the driver
Michael Perry
decline in work conditions being sold under the guise of freedom
welcome to the 21st century
Charles Rogers
Uber is a scam, I can't wait until it finally collapses.
Colton Campbell
It's disgusting and absurd. And their CEO is a fucking cunt.
Lincoln Wood
Just look at this fucking porky
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Austin Evans
Yes very much so they're classified as contractors so Uber can pay them as they please and fuck with their benefits and whatnot. Its the definition of exploitative. The drivers also have to maintain their cars and pay for gas out of their earnings. Uber is worth over a billion and its owners are mega millionaires/billionaires. The average uber driver is making 35-50k a year
Dylan Nelson
Brandon Sanchez
Yes. Uber and other "sharing economy" businesses that turn personal property into private property for the immediate temporary purpose of market exchange are the future for a lot of the logistics sector. The whol things also perfectly falls perfectly in line with the dominant liberal ideology of treating the individual as atomized and completely "in charge" of their financial needs. UBI does the same by ridding the state of problems of delegation, bureaucracy and managing sub-organs and simply giving workers some cash they can figure everything out with themselves.
Cameron Morales
will it? right now investors are footing 60% of the bill for each ride. with rates like that, other services will soon be defunct, at which point uber will have a monopoly and gouge prices freely.
Jace Miller
they're the present, there are countless logistics enterprises having people work with their own car/van. I'm positive the only reason trucks drivers aren't being forced to buy their own truck is that it's simply too expensive for them. Not so with a van.
It's been like this for years in my country, I'm actually amazed that uber gets media coverage at all.
Nathaniel Bailey
In fact, talking to people who are looking for work (and being one of them myself) I can't keep count of the times I've heard employers ask the employee to bring their own tools.
Asher Hernandez
own tools is standard for construction workers
Ian Young
is stallman /ourguy/?
David Brown
how retarded do you have to be to think this is a good idea
Aiden Gonzalez
In a way yes, because it's temporary. Uber, Apple, Google et al and peter thiel's shit company are all working on replacing this industry with automated cars. Uber and lyft drivers are temporary, probably. Depends how things go, especially considering that the danger is currently very real.
Lucas White
kek, uber even published article about it on it's blog web.archive.org
Camden Bennett
Bunch of fucking limpdick amateurs.
Ayden Roberts
Isn't Uber losing money? Like a lot of it? I don't understand how this business model can last.
Elijah Roberts
gizmodo.com
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tl;dr - they are operating at a loss, but it doesn't matter because in a couple years most of their cars will be automated and they won't need drivers.
Jaxson Nguyen
They've bet everything on automated vehicles soon
b-b-but technological unemployment doesn't exist!
Owen Watson
Even now it blows my mind that everyone is eager to use what's essentially the west equivalent of brazilian unlicensed taxis.
Isaac Clark
That's not true, I've heard of people making small fortunes through Uber. Of course not the majority, but some have made big money.
Christian Russell
Lyft is still afloat and basically the same thing. >Taxis - unions
Jeremiah Morris
counter-arguments, the eternal bane of dumb anecdotal rhetoric
Leo Kelly
As is usual for capitalism, people focus on the exceptions to justify the rule.