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In response to "So, we passed a law increasing the minimum wage of delivery workers. The apps can either pay them $18hr, even when they're not delivering food or -- (edited)" by Krusty

Presumably this makes the app rates so untenable that people stop using them and the companies collapse.

Posted by Mop🧹 (aka rburriel) Dec 4 '23, 17:14

These disrupters were building a business off low wage workers. They hid the true cost by forcing the gig workers to shoulder the burden. If we can make this work at a fair price, I'm all for it. But I don't think consumers will pay that fair price.

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*fingers crossed* -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 4, 17:20 2
- Why? - zunk takes things literally Dec 4, 17:45 1
  - fuck Apps -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Dec 4, 17:47

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Presumably this makes the app rates so untenable that people stop using them and the companies collapse.

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