Why are people bashing Uber? If they let surge prices stay in the $150's, every Uber driver in the city would have gone to the airport.

Not really. Separating the US along party lines would be a disaster logistically. With no land mass connecting the Northeast and the West Coast, trade would be subject to either air (which is expensive) or the good will of the Red States to let trains and trucks move across their land.

Not really. Separating the US along party lines would be a disaster logistically. With no land mass connecting the Northeast and the West Coast, trade would be subject to either air (which is expensive) or the good will of the Red States to let trains and trucks move across their land.

“It’s not fine to go out of its way to go against its own corporate policy, lift surge pricing so more people would be able to use Uber and the taxi driver strike would be less effective.”

Do it.

People should’t be forced to join unions and give 5% of their cash to what often is an ineffective and partisan group though.

He seems like one of those guys who has to lift up their leg to go between the legs

They don’t want to talk to a bunch of protesters harassing them on the way to work on a cold, wet NYC morning. They must be feeling guilty! Sad!

Agricultural workers aren’t blue collar.

I’m being blunt because I’m saying that raising the minimum wage is bad and every time you go on about how “the chief end unions is to advocate for it’s workers” which no one disagrees with. Ugh.

Alright, I’ll be blunt. The higher wages are for blue collar workers, the more jobs go overseas to China and Southeast Asia. This is bad. It is regrettable, but it’s true. The more healthcare, tenure, and other benefits they get, the less jobs stay in the US.

I never stated I was against unions, but that I am against raising the minimum wage and unions play a big role in that (they do). Sometimes union think they aren’t being paid enough for their work when in fact they are, and because of this negotiating power they have they raise the wages of the workers above their…

Howard Schultz, among others. A good CEO expands a company, resulting in more jobs and higher wages, and allows the different parts of the company to work together well. A good CEO can make a company, a bad one can sink it.

You asked if they are worth the money, and compensation boards are part of that. When a company decides to give the CEO 100 mil in stock or something, they do that to keep that talent at the company. They would not offer that option unless they believed that executive contributed more to the company than he or she was…

It’s 39.6%, far higher than the other brackets. Yes, America is not number 1 in those other categories. But our economy is much stronger than those other countries, and many of those problems come with having such a large population.

Why would they pay someone outrageous amounts of money if they weren’t talented? They’re staking their company on whichever executive they pick as CEO, so naturally they try to pick the best one.

The top 2.7% of the population pays over 50% of (income) taxes, while the bottom 80% pay only 20%. The bottom 20% actually receive more money directly from the government than they pay in taxes. So the rich subsidize the rest of us, and pay much more than their fair share.

Lets skip the part on whether or not unions force wages, either way they still are responsible for wage hikes.

Anyway, I have to go now. Thank you for having this discussion with me. Lack of dialogue is one of the biggest problems in our country right now, and I respect you for backing up your side of the argument. I hope that this was as informative to you as it was to me! -J

Well you stated everyone who works deserves a minimum wage, and there is no such thing as equal workers, so each worker should be paid differently based on their worth. Which begs the question: