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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: 0.22s | 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?

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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1. 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.