• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours ago

      They’d just leave the city because it would become unprofitable.

      It would need to be subsidized somehow if you want drivers to make a living wage while also implementing price controls and eliminating tipping. At that point, just have it be a city-owned public service.

      Turns out that it costs a lot of money to transport people around for a living wage.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        19 hours ago

        Who said anything about making it unprofitable? It would merely be less profitable, and they won’t leave over that. They can still make a huge amount of profit from volume.

        This idea that we are at the mercy of private businesses and there’s nothing we can do to control them needs to die.