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I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour

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383 points imartin2k | 2 comments | 13 May 17 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.502s | source
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fiatjaf ◴[13 May 17 11:42 UTC] No.14330452[source]▶
I don't understand what is wrong with Uber Eats charging whatever price they want to charge. If $4.4 is too low just don't work for them. There are probably people for which this is a good price. If not, it's Uber Eats problem, not yours.
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justaaron[dead post] ◴[13 May 17 12:00 UTC] No.14330508[source]▶
you are in the extreme minority in advocating NOT having a minimum wage. your approach also essentially nullifies any possibility of collective bargaining, as any desperate person may actually accept such a low offer thus driving the market price down.

I could just as easily propose contracts for sales of kidneys from living donors. You have 2 of them, after-all, and if you happen to be mentally incompetent enough to sell one of them for a few bucks, who the heck does the guvment think they are interfering, eh?

eru ◴[13 May 17 12:15 UTC] No.14330559[source]▶
Iran has a market for kidneys, actually. And it's the only country in the world without a long queue for donations.
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1. mgkimsal ◴[13 May 17 12:46 UTC] No.14330684[source]▶
Had you read/heard this story?

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/580/...

It's what sprung to mind when you mentioned organ sales, and it dives in a bit more to multiple sides of the issue.

Interesting read/listen for those of you haven't yet.

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2. eru ◴[13 May 17 13:02 UTC] No.14330733[source]▶
Thanks for the link. I think I read about it from other sources.

Yes, it's a bit of a complicated issue---but it's not just "obviously a bad idea and no one ever should ever even contemplate it".