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Ride-hailing company Uber is slamming the British Columbia government's decision to impose minimum wages and basic labour protections for gig workers,
Uber can get fucked.
If you can't figure out how to pay your workers properly, and follow the law on "basic labour protections", you don't deserve to be in business.
I pride myself that I have never called or used any uber service. They can get fucked. also never book with airbnb, or whatever weird delivery service that expect their "worker" to get paid with tips only. I only order delivery when the restaurant have their own guy doing it.
Big business is full of entitled babies. The minimum wage needs to be $21
Tie minimum wage to general CoL since 1980, and it currently would be something like $28/hr.
Tie minimum wage to a specific CoL such as rental costs, which are governed by the one-third rule, and since 1980 it would have risen to about $38/hr in cities like Kelowna, and likely half again more for places like Vancouver.
Then uber’s business model is untenable
Uber's goal was always to replace human drivers with autonomous vehicles, it's just taking longer than they planned.
Uber’s CEO makes 24 million a year to sit in air-conditioned comfort and make bad, self-serving decisions.
I'd love to see what the new rates are compared to Taxis, we'll have to wait until September, but I suspect it's not going to be much of a difference anymore and usage of these services will drop.
It does seem a bit strange that the BC government just recently banned self-driving cars though.
I expected that to be the path forward here, with Vancouver being the first city in Canada to roll out a Waymo-taxi operation. Most of the cost of a taxi/uber these days is labour, not the capital for the vehicle or maintenance and fuel.