Uber will refuse to comply with new California law requiring them to reclassify [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | September 12, 2019 | Luke Kenton

[dfwgator]

You will croak, you little clown.

[hanamizu]

Many people today are 1099 contract workers, even sales people...California can kiss their business engine goodbye.

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If Uber/Lyft leave the California market, millions will be inconvenienced; drivers who will lose a job where they can set their own hours, and riders, many of whom have come to depend on ride-sharing. But the legislators who vote things like this are all secure in the belief that they know what is best for the rest of us. ‘You have to give up straws, air travel, meat...”—the list goes on and on, “for your own good.”

One would hope that California voters would get sick of it, but they haven’t yet.

[Antoninus]

He is saying that Uber is a Digital Platform meet-up space that independent drivers and independent riders use to facilitate an agreed service. It’s much like Facebook and Twitter being digital platforms to share ideas and experiences.

Exactly. California is trying to force that square peg into the round hole of the 20th century model of taxi-cab companies.

[Hotlanta Mike]

So what’s the difference between having to bid the lowest to get the job or accept a request for a pick up on the Uber driver app?

[dangus]

“Except for some scaling issues” is like, “Besides that, how was the theater, Mrs. Lincoln.”

Scaling after the fact is extraordinarily expensive. And scaling BEFORE the fact means spending huge amounts of money before you can sustain the investment, and you’ll be bleeding finance costs like crazy.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Doctors, insurance agents, and real estate agents, were all made exempt from the bill after months of jostling between lawmakers.

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In other words, Unequal application of the law.

[dangus]

>> It’s much like Facebook and Twitter being digital platforms to share ideas <<

That is the most naive thing I’ve read about the internet since 1983.

[Yo-Yo]

And scaling BEFORE the fact means spending huge amounts of money before you can sustain the investment, and you’ll be bleeding finance costs like crazy.

I refer you back to the article I linked titled "Uber lost more than $5B last quarter."

[Ezekiel]

You will croak, you little clown.

"A little song, a little dance..."

[EVO X]

In other words, Unequal application of the law.

The people making the law don't see it that way.

[Pelham]

” California just wants to milk Uber AND its drivers for more tax revenue.”

It’s about control rather than money.

The latin American socialists ruling the state gov’t here in California resent the fact that Uber drivers have escaped their clutches.

Reclassifying them solves that intolerable bit of freedom.

This new law will also blow up every barbershop and beauty salon in the state. Should be interesting to watch the blowback.

[Hotlanta Mike]

In other words, Unequal application of the law.
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The people making the law don’t see it that way.

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Ah, but they do. Because these politicos derive some benefit from excluding certain groups from their mandate. Uber/Lyft can fight the bill if signed into law based on the fact that that certain groups/industries are shielded from this due to political connections. If it doesn’t apply to everyone, then it shall apply to no one.

[MachIV]

My problem is the app will not even work. I can’t even get to the level you have.