• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    19 days ago

    The whole gig industry is shady as shit, from Uber to those uninsured delivery drivers, most of them refugees in a vulnerable position (in Europe anyway).

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      19 days ago

      Uber is just a taxi service where the company doesn’t have to follow the normal taxi regulations and safety, pays its drivers at a much worse rate, doesn’t have to pay anything for servicing vehicles or licensing drivers, and sells your travel data.

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        And it specifically undercuts existing taxi unions, hollowing out those jobs and the decades of negotiatons that they won, while also increasing cost to users. Meanwhile, I know people who’ve lost money while working for uber and doordash.