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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Uber took off like wildfire because "It's an app, not a job" and the "hiring process" is really barebones and automated and they can onboard as many people as they want without budgeting for payroll All of this is bad, but Silicon Valley liberals and libertarians think it's good
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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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There are at least a dozen gig economy companies that don’t perform background checks, I doubt this guy is even unemployed at this point but please let the ableist pile-ons continue. My values are pretty socialist but I’d rather drink draino than ID publicicly as a socialist.
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The hilarious thing is that the one person yelling at me who actually was an Uber driver also got all smug telling me "There's no way this guy actually stopped driving"
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He wasn't one of the people yelling at me about ruining lives, he just thought the whole thing was a narcissistic indulgence
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Ah yes, the desire to leave one’s home, very indulgent.
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