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I am curious how much support staff this fleet has, and how much work they do. The article mentions nothing about that.

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I’d like to see the financial analysis.

This job competes directly with San Franciscans who pay taxes and commuting drivers who spend money on food and gas.

When we wipe them out and replace it with a tax-dodging multinational corporation what happens to our local economy?

When was the last time you had an Uber driver that actually lived in San Francisco? Most of the drivers I talk to were driving in, from as far away as San Diego.

Doubtful. I've done that car trip multiple times, it's a 7-9 hour drive.

Yeah, it was extraordinarily far, which is why I remember the conversation. But he drove up to SF and slept in his car for the weekend because the trips were a lot more valuable here.

Are you saying a driver commuted 8 hours north to drive for Uber? and then back when he was done?

Yeah that’s not a thing anymore and it hasn’t been lucrative to do that in quite some time.

Me, my neighbor, my other neighbor, two guys down the block from me…

There are at least 3 people in my building that do it. I also know a handful of cabis that all live in the city.

Waymo pays 3.25% to SF and when the new tax inevitably passes in November it will be 7.75%.

This seems strongly to me like a broken window argument. Taken another way, you're paying people that could likely be doing more productive things to sit in a car and burn gasoline.

If money draining out of the economy is a major concern, there could just be a tax on AI rideshares (which given the political environment seems quite likely)

Are you in favor of UBI?

Generally, yes. But implementing UBI by wasting people's time is a bad idea.

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