[llamataboot]

Well, there's always the immediate option of a regular taxi!

But yes, sure, who knows, but isn't that the point the free market fundamentalists often make about price clearing? Supply and demand will somewhere theoretically clear each other and maybe it's always a dance around that spot, but in this case the drivers are using the algorithm to try to find the best price they can get for their service, rather than let Uber/Lyft determine it artificially.

I just don't understand why when capital sets the "price" of labor, it is considered free market ("No one forces anyone to drive for Lyft") even though many people literally have a choice between working or starving, which isn't much of a "free choice". But when labor tries mechanisms to find a new price, it's "collusion" and "gaming the system"

--

After all, even in this, there is always room for "defectors" to take the passengers that wouldn't use the higher rate!