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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 | 1 comments | 13 May 17 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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johnchristopher ◴[13 May 17 13:48 UTC] No.14330947[source]▶
Push it a little bit harder and you are going to argue minimum wage is a stalinian horror.
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patrickaljord ◴[13 May 17 13:49 UTC] No.14330953[source]▶
Nice refutation. Also, are you aware that minimum wages laws were originally designed to prevent low skilled blacks from competing on price with whites, right? Even to this day, minimum wage keeps minorities out of jobs. But if it makes you feel better at night that at least no one is payed $4 an hour, even if that means staying at home with $0 an hour.

For those downvoting, this is a historical fact:

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-t...

- http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0405-leonard-mini...

When you have no skills, you need to compete on price, that's just a fact of life. Preventing people from competing on price will keep them poor and unemployed. When this is done on purpose to racial minorities, it's called racism.

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1. johnchristopher ◴[13 May 17 13:52 UTC] No.14330965[source]▶
Thank you :).

FWIW: `Nice refutation.` were the only words of the original post I replied to.