Tell me about being an Uber Taxi Driver

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Series DD Funding: Nov 25, 2014; by exmarx

DeathSandwich posted:

So what's the reason that it costs so much to buy a taxi medallion in the bigger US cities? It just seems like that sort of arbitrarily expensive hoop to jump through in order to create false scarcity to drive up rate prices for taxis. I drive my own car mind you and never deal with Uber or standard Taxis, but wouldn't part of the answer be to have a cheaper pathway to become a licensed taxi? Lower the rates and make it easier to get a ride when you need one and also undercut one of the big advantages of Uber.

The roads are congested enough as is

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Series DD Funding: Nov 25, 2014; by exmarx

Rudager posted:

loving hell you're dense.

Every Uber advertisement (at least that I've seen/heard) is trying to recruit drivers, not riders. Why do you think that is?

Uber doesn't care about people riding in the cars, if they did they would advertise for that. By advertising for drivers and not customers they just gently caress over all their "Independent Contractors" by flooding the supply side of the market.

MLM companies do the same thing, they push the "opportunity" and the products are just incidental because they're not interested in selling the product, they want to recruit more people.

No, it means drivers are the ones who need to be persuaded to work for Uber. And yes they do advertise to riders, I've gotten multiple free ride credits from them.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2015 23:49

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