The way you shift goal posts, have no problem throwing out unverifiable ideas like they’re the only true facts, ignore masses of available evidence, create straw men you can still barely burn down, and abuse terms like ‘enslavement’...

It make me glad that your ideas are losing traction literally every day.

Except, it’s nothing like that. Companies in every market have ‘suggested pricing’. That’s what MSRP literally is. Even then, individual franchises are not primarily competing with themselves- McDonald’s is competing with the BK across the street, not the McDonald’s 5 miles away.

Uber is a central controlling…

Well, we know they’re going to do whatever allows them to skirt as many potential responsibilities as possible.

In this context, each Uber driver is the competitor with every other driver, and they’re being forced to offer ‘fixed’ pricing.  The litigant wouldn’t be the drivers, but the riders.

Your feelings are not the same as demographic or economic data. There are well more than 30,000,000 people with a legal disability in the U.S. There will be another 40,000,000 baby boomers over 70 by 2025, and many of them will not have the retirement funds to remotely cover their life expenses. That’s 70M people…

A free market is one aspect of a just society, not the only one. A free market only serves the profit motive. You need a corresponding force to support those whose needs do not readily generate a profit.

Boom / bust cycles are mainly natural misapplication of assets derived by the fact that no one has complete…

If it wasn’t the least shitty option out of a buffet of shitty options, people wouldn’t be doing that.

That’s still not a good argument, though, unless your argument is that it’s OK to mistreat people if you only do it a few hours a week.

Bottom line, Uber has built its’ brand being a loss leader because the folks on…

Once a licker, always a licker.

I’m as successful now as i need to be to live a happy life. I’ve never needed to be an unpaid corporate shill to justify to myself my place in a shitty system.

Simple answer is that the current rate becomes the minimum. We’re already at the bottom.

Most people are willing to pay more to get somewhere sooner. I would pay an extra $5 to not have to wait 20 minutes for my ride.

Those are both simple solutions.

Per fare: Uber gets 25% up to a maximum of $N. Say, $3)

Per month: Uber gets 25% of each fare up to $2, capping at $N per month.

Here’s the rub: Either way, Uber needs to increase their rates, because the individual drivers don’t have investors bailing them out.

I was unemployed for six months last year. I was unemployed in 2012 as well. I did Amazon delivery in the morning, job hunting and interviews in the afternoon, cleaned toilets in the evening, and job hunted again when I got home. I also cared for my boys and wife, kept food on the table, volunteered at my church,…

If the ride share services don’t pay enough,

Do you understand what unemployment actually measures? Or do things like ‘underemployment” and “labor participation rate” confuse you?

35% of the able-bodied, of-age workforce is unaccounted for in that amazingly low unemployment rate.

Not saying traditional livery services were good, but a large chunk of the reason Uber is successful is because they have the start-up funds to run at a loss until the traditional services die. At which point they will quite likely become just as bad for the customers, while being even worse for the drivers.

Not saying traditional livery services were good, but a large chunk of the reason Uber is successful is because they have the start-up funds to run at a loss until the traditional services die. At which point they will quite likely become just as bad for the customers, while being even worse for the drivers.

Such a stupid analogy barely deserves a response, but, oh well:

Do you know what Patreon is? What sponsorships are? Youtube is the platform, but not the sole source of monetization. What do you think Uber would do if a driver was like, “Hey- I’ll give you this ride for 80% if you don’t use the app?”

You’re so dead wrong about so much of what you’ve posted.

It’s a high school economics level of monetary theory that acts as if there aren’t billions of people beyond our borders, and trillions of dollars worth of investment in automation inside them.

What you describe isn’t a ‘just society’- its an unfettered market- a…

No, it’s the recognition that there’s a 100% chance that a large cohort will not be mentally or physically able to make the same choices or have the same successes. It’s not the desire to limit those at the top, but rather to make sure that those at the bottom are not drowning.

The expression has always been, “A…

He also pulled the midseason deal that gave them the extra pieces for the championship run.

The Cavs by themselves have 4 of the last 16 #1's.  The entire West has 5.