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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 | 4 comments | 13 May 17 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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?

1. fiatjaf ◴[13 May 17 13:31 UTC] No.14330860[source]▶
What's the problem of a desperate person actually accepting such a low offer? Do you prefer that such a person doesn't get any job?

In many countries the "minimun wage" you like so much is less than $4.4/hour. Why do you think it is this way?

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2. pikzen ◴[13 May 17 13:40 UTC] No.14330906[source]▶
You are not taking into account differences such as cost of life in the country. Almost every single country that has minimum wage, when brought back to US levels, has it higher than $4.4/h.

Minimum wage isn't a matter of having a certain amount of money. It's being able to live with dignity.

3. quickben ◴[13 May 17 14:02 UTC] No.14331006[source]▶
Minimum wages are relative to the country they are in and to the living standard there.
4. dghughes ◴[13 May 17 14:04 UTC] No.14331016[source]▶
The reverse is people in countries with a low cost of living such as Indra or the Philippines come to work in Canada or the US. A $11 hour minimum wage here is probably equivalent to $50 hour back in the worker's home country.

Compare what rent or a house costs and food basics you'll see that to a worker quality of life depends on the minimum wage but mostly on the cost of living.