Interesting theory that if Uber and other similar platform companies are right that they have on-boarded independent contractors and not employees, then they are enabling the contractors to engage in price fixing/horizontal coordination: https://jalopnik.com/the-legal-argument-that-could-destroy-uber-1834790506 …
Sorry, I tl;dr-ed the article. Why would that be? One of the requirements of sufficient competition is the absence of price fixing/collusion no?
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Uber allows multiple different independent contractors to coordinate their pricing, but there is still competition in the market.
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In a way that is different from att allowing truckers to communicate and this form a pricing cartel? Not preventing price coordination is not the same as engaging in it.
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