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by maxerickson 2128 days ago
Might as well link the source of the survey vs a Forbes blag: https://therideshareguy.com/california-sues-uber-and-lyft-fo...

Too bad they didn't ask questions like "do you want to deal with independent contractor taxes" and "do you want to set your own hours" and so on, to drill down into why they liked the independent contractor status.

Maybe the solution is to force ride share companies to truly act as matchmakers, where they show passengers and drivers the book and collect a small fee for completed transactions rather than using opaque pricing to maximize their take from both sides of the transaction.