California just killed Uber/Lyft

My neighbors drive for Uber. (I think Uber Select.) Both like it...they make decent money, they drive very well-kept but used vehicles (his Lincoln has almost 400,000 miles) that they bought cheap.

 

That's ridiculous. Are all other forms of public transportation "stealing jobs" from taxi drivers? How about individual cabs, are they stealing fares from each other?

Uber. Its a safer, cleaner, friendlier, more convenient, cash free way to travel. That is why Taxi's are becoming obsolete.
Good Riddens. Don't let the rigged meter reader hit you on the way out!

 

You are ADORABLE! News flash: a taxicab being a decrepit, smelly junk heap is normal, and nothing is or will be done about it. AN Uber car is usually much nicer-and if not, the driver with the junker will be booted!

 

You should probably see a doctor...paranoia on that level is not healthy.

 

I have recanted my overall skeptical commentary about private-contractor transportation drivers, but go ahead and piss on me if that amuses you.

I still say that before I would get in a car with ANY "1099" free-lance driver, I would want to know (not wonder) if he/she has been thoroughly vetted by somebody in a position of responsibility, and, I would want to see a picture of the vehicle, and THE DRIVER. Without that, no way am I going to get that car....

When I travel in the U. S., I'm almost always in a rental car, or, a limo. In Europe, I use public transportation, which is still quite good.

 

You see exactly that with Uber-photo of the driver, car's plate, and picture of the car. (Not sure it's the ACTUAL car, might be a generic pic off Google.)

I worked with someone who drove livery cars...he passed every check, having a CDL, a chauffeur's license, and a school bus license; he had even worked for a school department driving buses. Only problem: it was a stolen identity, he was an illegal alien.

 

Mmm... interesting, and I'm sure what you say is factual. That scores another advocacy point for public transportation, but what has always pissed me off is that in the United States, a lot of state or city-funded/controlled public transportation doesn't go to AIRPORTS, which is the only way most people have travelled for the last fifty years!

How I wish we had rail systems like they do in Europe, but our country is so big, and the true costs of running a train system are astronomical. But, it's amazing how you can land in Frankfurt, spend a month in Germany, travel all over the country, from the North Sea to Bavaria, in remote countrysides and dense urban areas, and get exactly where you want to go, in relative comfort and security, and never use anything but public transportation.

 

Yeah, sure.


California job growth is outpacing the nation’s

And we're the fifth largest economy on Earth.
You're welcome.

 

Yep, the economy is booming. Thank you, Donald Trump.

And yet...

 

Cabs are wanting drivers, and Cabbies actually make money, unlike Goobers.

 

And yet what? Unfunded Liabilities is weapons grade BS.

 

How many "crimes are being committed by Uber and Lyft" is that ?

Statistics show about 40 Uber and Lyft per year committed crimes

Statistics show 110 police officers are committing crimes per year.

When Uber and Lyft numbers become more risky than police, I will worry.

 

California's "kill independent contractors" law is set to go into effect Jan 1st, 2020, and it's not just going to kill Uber and Lyft, it's also set to destroy all of California's freelance journalists.

The law was passed quietly, and the amount of damage it's going to do is slowly dawning on California, and it has people flipping out.

This law is the work of progressive Democrats(of course) in cahoots with the unions. Freelancers don't join unions(and, more importantly to the unions, they don't pay union dues), and therefore they must be eliminated.

 

Who is forced to work for Uber/Lyft? They are independent contractors who get to work their own hours as they see fit. No wonder libs hate it.

 

Yet another business plan based on fairytale assumptions that received financial backing.

I listened to a client whine they couldn’t turn a profit if they had to invest in the equipment and build the infrastructure necessary to perform their service. WTF?

A sign of our Myopic times.

 

Liberal victory:



Cruel reality:

 

Hopefully, all of the leftist propagandists who have lost their "journalism" jobs to the stupid liberal policies that they themselves voted for, hopefully they'll join the throngs of homeless on the poop-smeared streets of the liberal hellscape cities that were created by the liberal politicians that they themselves voted for.

Better they be street-crapping bums in California, than moving out of state to escape the mess they created, and spreading the leftist cancer across the country.

 

People choose gig work for their reasons, and California decides that gig workers don't know what is best for them, and makes decisions for them. What could possibly go wrong?

 

It's an absolute bloodbath.

SB Nation, a Vox-affiliated sports blog, had recently sued Vox, because the writers wanted to be treated as full-time employees(and entitled to all the bennies there owed) rather than contractors. The lawsuit was moving forward.

I guess it's a moot point now. California's new gig economy law came along and gave the SB Nation writers a big, helping leftist hand.

As per usual, leftist cures are an absolute cancer.

 

The gig economy is under fire from big money. That is just a fact and they will use their money and influence to get politicians to protect them with legislation.

 

The attack on the gig economy in California is coming from the unions. Contractors don't join unions(and, more importantly, they don't pay dues to unions) and so therefore the unions want to kill the contractor classification in the hopes that all the former contractors will become employees, and those employees will form and join unions(and then pay those sweet, sweet union dues).

That's not what's happening though. What's happening is the attack on the gig economy is just killing jobs.

That's fine with the unions though, because it they can't have the workers in their unions, then nobody can have them, and that'll teach you to not pay your dues.

 

High speed rails might work.

 

LOL - I'd say they got an entirely different appendage...

 

I 'lol'd' pretty hard at this.

"instead of having an opportunity to make some cash on the side, on your own schedule, we have decided it's better for you to not have it"

 

At least they can't see it in the dark and the fires cleanse it.