[JumpCrisscross]

> It is the company’s job to price their service to cover costs

They did. They made money. The delivery staff made money--OP is quoting the real, lived experience of actual gig workers. The government came in and decided that was unsavory, and so now those staff are making less (not counting the ones now unemployed).

> it is better to avoid them altogether imo

Not for the delivery driver!

[Yeul]

There is always someone willing to work for a dollar. That doesn't mean we should abolish the minimum wage to exploit desperation.

Gig workers are just bullshit countries invented to hide unemployment. They don't ad anything to the economy. Nobody is buying a house or starting a family as a Uber delivery driver.

[JumpCrisscross]

> doesn't mean we should abolish the minimum wage to exploit desperation

I agree. If all the city had done was raise the minimum wage (and make it applicable to these workers), that would have been fine. They didn't. They added a targeted tax.

> Nobody is buying a house or starting a family as a Uber delivery driver

Not in Seattle, but objectively untrue across the country. But also, I don't think it's fair to say we should render unemployed everyone who has a job that they can't start a family or buy a house on.

[kasey_junk]

Was anyone buying a house or starting a family delivering pizza for dominoes as an employee?

[tptacek]

Or, for that matter... as taxi drivers?