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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: 0.001s | 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. Trd ◴[13 May 17 18:24 UTC] No.14332249[source]▶
> How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working

You are asking the wrong question. The real question is how can swedes prevent yet another unskilled job from being utterly annihilated by globalization in action?

Before Uber and undocumented migrants arriving in droves, those lines of unskilled work had better condition, quality of life. With the unfair competition of illegally employed undocumented migrants working for peanuts, it's only a matter of time before all other delivery companies shut their doors and bail. Then we'll end up with yet another job lost at the globalist hands. How much can we continue losing to globalisation? Everything, until the entire Western world has become as poor as the third world, save for the low % of SV entrepreneurs and VC?

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2. eru ◴[15 May 17 22:28 UTC] No.14345726[source]▶
Why would the Swedes want to do that?

Productivity ultimately drives standards of living.