Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.
Great, just get the heck out of here with your gig market profiteering.
Oh no. People might have to use regular taxis.
Or maybe just take a walk, use public transit, ride a bike, or use some other sort of !micromobility!
Public transport in Minneapolis/St. Paul sucks
Coincidence?
What public transport
The one in your heart?
Good! Providing a cheap service at the cost of the staff doing the work is not acceptable.
This is all just grandstanding anyway. They may leave, but likely they will just increase their rates.
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Call their bluff, they won’t leave.
They literally won’t. They’ll set their rates at “profitable” numbers and leave their computers on, just like everywhere else.
But if the apparatus of the people (government) backs down then it’ll be another total failure of government.
If every business in Ohio left that cried about some laws there wouldn’t be any left
They never pass up profit, even if it’s less
Okay bye bye. It’s not like they suddenly take all the drivers and their cars with them. Are they forgetting what business they are in? All they do is match drivers with passengers. Some other scrappy startup can easily fill that gap when they leave. Uber became only big because of first mover advantage and cut throat capitalism. Their tech is not groundbreaking.
And then was born a 3rd competitor.
Pretty sure that would benefit General Motors and the Petrol giants.
Fewer ways of transportation? More people buying cars! Vroom vroom goes the planet!
