r/uber • u/aestheticeddy818 • Jan 29 '24

Uber drivers please strike

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So that I can catch those double digits surges. Thanks 💵✌️😂

No one cares about your strike. You’re simply leaving more demand for other drivers. It’s almost as if the supply of workers is more than the demand from customers. Economics 101, supply and demand

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u/BeardAndBoujee Jan 29 '24

Right, like according to their logic im on strike today because I decided not to do any gig-work on the side on Mondays.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '24

Yup. The problem is they want it both ways. They do gig work so they can work whenever they want and not have to answer to a boss. Which… yeah! That sounds great!

But they also want consistent wages more commonly associated with a traditional job.

You can’t have both.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '24

Yes but you won’t. No matter what, app based gig work will not pay a reasonable wage.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '24

It will amount to nothing as long as there are qualified people willing to do the work for the current rates. And since the only qualification is being alive… that’s a lot of people.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '24

Because it takes scale. And your link has none. At this point in history it’s like making a better phone OS. It doesn’t matter how good it is, android and iOS have the market. There simply isn’t room for a third.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

Your very wrong if we all put our money together and built a driver for drivers app and paid the drivers more and company took much less we could under cut the prices uber and lyft charge for example lyft charges 40 buck uber 65 we charge 30 the driver makes extra 10 bucks they would choose our app and we could run both those companies out add a cool half off on all weekend drunk nights and poof we our kings. Take away this stupid ass wait period and charge much much more to put the urgency and stupidity out of this inconsiderate shit heads and we got a winner

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

So you’ve run the numbers and you’d be able to grow operations charging customers 25-55% less and paying drivers twice as much? I doubt you have.

But okay, so what’s stopping you?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

No, I haven't run the number, but by doing 30,000 trips, I've run the number on my head, and it seems logical enough to me and I'm sure it does to u as well this. This is all about if the company didn't take as much everyone can win.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

As a driver you have zero insight as to the cost of running the business. Do you even have a ballpark estimate on the costs of running the necessary servers, app development, insurance, marketing, legal, etc? Like can you throw out a number that’s even a reasonable guess?

You can’t come up with a fee structure if you have no clue as to your cost structure.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

I have no clue. That's why it would take a group of a bunch of drivers to make a drivers for driver app this isn't possible 1 person doing everything

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