Varun Srinivasan
@v
Took a 20 minute Uber today, cost me $19.89. Driver took home a little over $5. Uber's take is 75% - that seems surprisingly high. I would have expected a split closer to 50-50.
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Stuart
@olystuart
Turns out tech bros "reinventing" things by lowering the wages of the workers involved is actually not real progress 🤷♂️
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
If they're just extorting workers, it would be easy for someone to start another company that just paid the drivers more. Then Uber wouldn't have any drivers left. It must be actually hard to build a business that pays drivers a lot more without losing money.
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Jason
@jachian
There have been others that ran on that premise like Juno. Even have talked to some of these drivers. They like it but it’s hard to beat the network effects that Uber have built up over the years
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welp 🎩🌸
@we
Yeah, NYC has https://drivers.coop/download which only takes 15%from the ride but nobody uses it afaik I tried the app a few years ago and it was horrible, really need to take more to good engineers
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