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by acdha 2224 days ago
I think there's more than just visibility: the pizza driver at least has a fixed rate which doesn't change all of the time and there isn't a third party hiding part of the billing. Most of the gig apps try to obscure their share of the money, especially from the customer and driver, and anything which has the concept of surge pricing can add noise which makes it harder to understand the impact of changes.