I would be even more mad if I was driving for Uber in those cities and overnight the government made the decision for me to remove that as an income option.
This is Uber’s fault, not the government’s fault for enforcing basic employee rights.
I’d also go to prison, whereas Uber and Lyft just get to say “whoops!” and leave town.
There is a ton of research on this and a lot of things I have read around minimum wages is that it might actually hurt workers more than anything.
Once minimum wage laws come in, a company needs to decide to raise prices or stop doing business. Raising price helps inflation and starts that feedback loop. Stop doing business means now the workers are out of a job which is even worse.
The real solution is to create an environment where companies compete to get workers. This was the case not so long ago after covid where most people didn't want to go back to work and some fast food chains had to raise wages to 25$/h
How so? Your comment refutes something I didn't say. I said that Uber is blaming the law for their own decision to pull out of that market and that this is an intentional/manipulative decision on their part, which seems not to disagree with your comment.
> The real solution is to create an environment where companies compete to get workers.
This will remain impossible while there are far more workers than jobs (that they can work). Every job I apply to already has hundreds of other applicants. I can't get in anywhere, so I have to apply everywhere. Everyone else also does this. Workers have to compete for jobs & employers routinely fuck you over because they know they have leverage.
While it would sure be nice if jobs had to compete for me instead, I need to live today so I need money today and this "healthy low employment environment" will never exist. I have to take the first job I get an offer from because it might be my only job opportunity for years.