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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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fastball ◴[13 May 17 11:38 UTC] No.14330444[source]▶
I rode for UberEats for two weeks and made roughly £22 an hour.

To be fair, this was when they were just coming into London and offering crazy bonuses to steal market share from Deliveroo, but still, this isn't controversial - if someone pays you bad wages, don't work for them...

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pikzen ◴[13 May 17 13:33 UTC] No.14330868[source]▶
Uber uses hype money to incentivize working for them and tanking Deliveroo, able to absorb losses for years, allowing them to drive out competitors out of business. Then Uber drives down their own prices.

What do you do then? Change jobs? For an industry where the exact same thing has happened because of some moron with VC money that thinks that regulations are for the small people?

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fastball ◴[13 May 17 14:09 UTC] No.14331043[source]▶
Start a new competitor that pays better?
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pikzen ◴[13 May 17 14:15 UTC] No.14331071[source]▶
It's cute that you think that everyone has the ability and finances to start a competitor :)

Spoiler: if you're driving for uber, or delivering for uber eats, you are not in the category of population that has:

a) any chance of starting a company

b) any chance of that company succeeding against a giant.

Because you don't have any money. Because Uber pays you like crap.

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1. krrrh ◴[13 May 17 17:21 UTC] No.14331971{3}[source]▶
GP wasn't implying that every rider should start their own competitor. Juno is an example of a ride hailing company that corrected for low driver wages through market mechanisms.