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I still don’t get how it was totally fine for taxi drivers to be independent contractors, as long as it was cities controlling super-expensive medallions putting them into debt, but now that it’s Uber etc, drivers being contractors is a scam of some kind.
I can’t be the only person old enough to have taken taxis daily for years, and to remember how much that sucked.
Because the cities tended to control supply enough so that it may have been debt slavery, but it was better conditions: Hours worked/$ vastly better.
I have had enough taxi dispatchers say "fuck you, we don't want to pick you up, it's raining so all our cabs have plenty of business just downtown, sorry you are stuck where you are", and drivers lie about being empty and ready to pick someone else up while I am in the cab...
Getting a cab in SF was terrible. Call dispatch, "Be there in 15 minutes". Wait. 20 minutes passes. Nothing. Call back. "What do you want? Oh, we'll be there in 15 minutes". First time I used Uber it felt like the future. 3 mins to my exact location, no cash, nice car. Amazing.
Yeah. That was my life for many years. If it was raining, I just can’t go anywhere...
Took them for years, switched to Uber and never looked back. I'd see the same drivers daily who would still give me "i don't have change" bullshit regularly.
I would rather take cab than an uber still tbh. They seem more professional (At least in my country). Honestly I've had so many awful experiences with both uber and ubereats that I avoid them.
Don't worry, everyone was born yesterday.
They are both "scams of some kind"
It should be a public service with fair conditions for the drivers. They should reward harder travels so everyone's needs are met. Uber is not a solution, it is worse for drivers and, by now, the company has not made a single cent of profit, just speculation.
For sure the problems now with Uber could be fixed, but Uber was better for the drivers when it first started. At least, that's what every driver told me. It was only later, when supply grew too fast, that drivers have problems. But the old system was utter garbage.
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