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B.C. Uber workers call on province to cap the number of drivers on the road: 'Right now, it's essentially a free for all,' says ride-share driver (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Uber was never meant to make drivers any profit to begin with. The model was to offset the cost of a commute that they were already going to make by ridesharing, with uber skimming some money off on each transaction. Uber realized that people were willing to work on incredibly small margins in exchange for 'flexibility" when people tried to turn driving into a full time job. Uber drivers are fucking themselves with Uber's dick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I actually really like the idea of a true ride sharing app. Think of people taking commuter rail from the city center out to suburbia. There are lots of people that need to go from the train station to their home everyday. Many of them live less 10 minutes apart. Carpools kinda work but what if someone is late, or the driver is sick etc etc. A true ride sharing service would be awesome.

Taxi services in some (many? most?) areas were abusing their monopolies, but I don't think uber is the right way to fix that.