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Sounds like time for some politicians to get voted out of office. Voters may not care about certain things, but they definitely care about their transportation.

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Working class folks care more about their jobs than Uber's profits (rightfully so).

There are more working class folks, who this disadvantages than advantages. I'm sure the people of Mass who use Uber, would look at this as an extra tax put onto them. And Uber will cost more.

For example, when regulation (which was needed) around driver verification came out: I remember a very clear message on the Uber app about why the price of each ride went up $1.

I would absolutely love for someone to leak Uber's user demographic data. I find it hard to believe it's working class people regularly using it, and not just upper middle class professionals and above primarily (except on nights out to the bar; in that case I could see the demo skewed).

My bad, I should have tried to clarify. It seems we have different definitions of the working class.

I'm an upper middle class professional, but I consider myself in the "working class". Otherwise, I'm not sure why I waste 40-60 hours every week on other people's problems :P

Yes. Your bad. When you are using a term with a common meaning to say something completely different, you should say that up front.

You should probably try to look up the common meanings of "working class", because there are several and the one used above is one of the more common ones.

I consider working class the chunk of middle class constantly shrinking, joining the lower class. Tech workers are a minority.

Working class generally refers to blue collar.

If their jobs exist only because of rent-seeking, they shouldn't in the first place.

How are tech jobs as a whole not rent seeking? Or is it different when it's not government-sanctioned?

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