People do understand that if Uber became a real cab company that treated drivers like employees a lot of people would get fired by Uber, right And I am 100% in favor of this happening but I'm not sure they are
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Driving is really dangerous, the most high stakes physically dangerous thing most of us ever do, and the more hours you do it for per day the more dangerous it is Riding in a stranger's car is a position of great physical vulnerability
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Driving *should not be* the "random job anybody can get that you can always make money at if you're willing to grind long enough" that shitty libertarians point to as a substitute for UBI It's fucked up that Uber made it into one
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What I'm saying is maybe it's true and maybe it's isn't that the ableist Uber driver had his "life ruined" by being banned from the app But if Uber had its shit together, he'd likely never have been hired in the first place, and his life therefore also ruined
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Have you really thought this through I've thought of and witnessed plenty of situations where, just looking at the ability to do the job, someone should've been fired but whatever, it's cruel to fuck someone over like that *Driving can't be one of them*
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People are gonna yell at me for this but no, I don't think a driver who shows up drunk or who doesn't seem to notice red lights is all that different from someone who makes the judgment call to leave a disabled passenger on the curb Whether or not he knew it was illegal
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Difference of degree, not kind He couldn't take responsibility for the welfare of his passengers for whatever personal issue he had, he shouldn't be driving as a job
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Having been an independent contractor during periods when anxiety would have prevented me from having a "real job" where you have a schedule and can get fired for being late too many times, there are people who are not republicans who see the merits in contract labor
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I see it too, but Uber is a very bad example
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