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fiatjaf ◴[] 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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adultSwim ◴[] No.14331385[source]
> just don't work for them

Easy to say. I can move anywhere, work at almost any company, get a great wage, etc. We are the exceptions. 1.5 million American families, including 3m children, live on less than $2/person/day. That's not by choice.

Half the planet lives on less than $2 a day. That's $2 in our buying power. What would you buy with $30/month where you live? Not rent. Not gas. Flour? Bag of rice? Hope you can find a cheap source of (probably not clean) water.

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fiatjaf ◴[] No.14331436[source]
> Half the planet lives on less than $2 a day.

So it is better if they could work for $4.4 an hour, right? I honestly don't understand why UberEats is a bad.

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meheleventyone ◴[] No.14331785[source]
Right but that's $4.40 in Sweden, you need to scale that down to the equivalent for other countries. It would be significantly less in places where it's common to live on $2 a day.
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1. fiatjaf ◴[] No.14331902[source]
I don't think any scaling will turn $2 a day into $4.4 an hour. That's about $35 a day.