You just presented an exaggerated worst case scenario that almost never happens. I work between 25-35 hours a week in Denver, and the WORST week I’ve ever had was $22/hr. after expenses. I can’t speak for other markets, but I am making a lot more as an Uber driver in Denver than I made as a college instructor and…

How are the investors making money?

“He asked to sit in the front so i gave him 1 star without saying anything because I am petty and a dickhead who is incapable of adult direct communication” Thanks t3r, Very Cool!

So I guess people were just homeless before Uber & Lyft. Or were they in homes and now homeless? Im confused as to who you need to be angry towards....the company providing a job to people who want to work 30min after their desk job or a person who keeps working for $0.40 a hour

Wait, if people were acting like they were in a limo going to a movie premier, wouldn’t they want to sit in the back?

They do collectivly about 30 million rides a day. Thats 30 million transactions that drivers and passengers agree to.

This is a lot of words dedicated to a fundamentally broken statistical analysis of a non-random survey of an insignificant sample size and some anecdotal stories.

So this is an at-will gig where you pick your own hours, have no barrier to entry besides owning a car, have no interview process, and can quit whenever you want with no repercussions and you make $30/hour. What exactly are people complaining about?

Wait, you didn’t want people sitting in the front? That’s one of the main reasons I choose Uber over taxis. Easier communication, better view, better seat.

unions can still command great blocs of support; they can be counted on for money, and for an army of door-knockers and sign-wavers and get-out-the-vote rally-goers; they are one of the closest things that our atomized society has to a true political army

My Grandma is more important than integrity. Although, I may be biased because I have the best Grandma.

She won’t because the real reason she would like to go is politics. She doesn’t give a fuck about grandma.

WOW!

So some perceived “humiliation” is not worth it to see her grandmother that she says “might be her last time to see her”?

Wow, who could have predicted that Tlaib would use every opportunity she could for even more grandstanding, including using her own grandmother.

Let’s not do the woke homophobia thing huh

No one said she can’t go. They told her she can’t go if she’s going to actively work towards ending the Israeli state while she’s there.

Since we live in a political world, and obviously since she definitely lives in a political world, this is not the first time I’ve been disappointed about how Tlaib has handled something like this.

Again, another blog that doesn’t mention the planned trip was sponsored by a terrorist sympathizing, neo-Nazi liking group called Miftah. Also, Israeli law states that anyone who supports the boycott of Israel may be banned from the country.

I would put my politics aside to see my grandmother. Just saying.