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[–] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This is the free market at work.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (4 children)

    Isn't it technically not a free market if pieces of it are colluding?

    Not that I think this is a bad thing; a 100% free market is a terrible thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    No, it isn't a 100% free market if the rich can pay politicians to enact laws in their favor.

    There should only be "just" laws, not unjust laws. A just law in this context would simply be any law that protects people from a violation of their will within a logical order of operations across time. So murder, rape, theft, fraud, etc., would all be illegal.

    What wouldn't be illegal? Drug use, prostitution, etc.

    Would speeding be illegal? It depends. Who owns the road you're speeding on and what did they tell you the speed limit was?

    I would still own my home so if you came in it would be illegal for you to smoke crack in my bedroom because I say I don't want you to do that, and it's my home, so it's my rules. If you choose not to obey I have every right to ask you to leave, and if you refuse, I have every right to use violence upon you to make you leave.

    Unjust laws are just those laws that step from victimless crimes, such as say, smoking weed.

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  • [–] 56 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    If the system games you, game the system.

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    Love to see collective action like this. We need more of it, everywhere.

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  • [–] 73 points 4 days ago* (9 children)

    Its an absolutely garbage service and needs to no longer exist. All food delivery services like this are trash and I refuse to use them. And ridicule/shame everyone that does.

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    [–] 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    for some reason, i can’t hate them for this. i mean i never get food delivered like that anyways, so maybe my feelings don’t matter. but obviously things are not easy for under drivers.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    in germany uber eats has hired exactly zero drivers, they're all sub-subcontractors, which is major bs, and some parties are looking into forced employment for algorithmic workers

    (though afaik uber the taxi company actually hires out taxi drivers and owns the cars, operating like a regular taxi company as they try and loosen regulations)

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  • [–] 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    Higher prices still mean higher profits for Uber, right?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    more power to the working class

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