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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: 0.628s | source
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Markoff ◴[13 May 17 11:21 UTC] No.14330398[source]▶
TLDR Uber pays 4.4$ per hour, local competitor 17.9$

remind me again, why we need this shady company in Europe?

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eru ◴[13 May 17 12:13 UTC] No.14330548[source]▶
Who's forcing those people to work for uber, if those other companies are ostensibly paying better?
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rwmj ◴[13 May 17 12:17 UTC] No.14330567[source]▶
It sounds (from the article) that Uber is "flexible" about immigration rules.
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eru ◴[13 May 17 12:23 UTC] No.14330598[source]▶
Thanks for answering that!

So it looks like those higher paying jobs are not actually available for a large part of the Uber Eats workforce? How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working (= minimum wage)?

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1. kgwgk ◴[13 May 17 13:52 UTC] No.14330967[source]▶
Let's say some pawnbroker is "flexible" about the provenance of goods. How do thieves benefit from being forbidden from selling to him?
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2. Fnoord ◴[13 May 17 20:33 UTC] No.14332858[source]▶
Ideally, in a free society, laws are upheld by police enforcement. Thieves would therefore be unable to sell their products to a pawnshop, and the pawnshop would be unable to fence these products.

Of course, a society might fail with that goal but that doesn't make the goal invalid or non-existent.