This is a very off-brand comment but I wonder how many of these writers took a Lyft to work and got lunch from Uber Eats, enjoying the benefits of someone else’s job being turned into a gig, never considering that the Tech Bros were coming for them next.
That would make sense if taxis weren’t basically a mafia-like organization in most places.
Here, the taxi drivers are the absolute worst. They drive worse than student drivers. They don’t give two shits about the customers - if you order a taxi and they find someone more convinient hailing them they’ll just pick up that person and never come to pick you up with no notice. They can’t follow basic GPS directions from their device and you often have to guide them.
The taxi companies send any complaints directly into the shredding machine. They have a legally enforced monopoly over a region and customers have no choice.
And I’m talking about a major city in America.
There is definitely a healthy middle ground, but just going back to taxis is not the solution.
This is a very off-brand comment but I wonder how many of these writers took a Lyft to work and got lunch from Uber Eats, enjoying the benefits of someone else’s job being turned into a gig, never considering that the Tech Bros were coming for them next.
Not so relevant, but I definitely hope for the return of taxis and regulated employee benefits / hire rates.
That would make sense if taxis weren’t basically a mafia-like organization in most places.
Here, the taxi drivers are the absolute worst. They drive worse than student drivers. They don’t give two shits about the customers - if you order a taxi and they find someone more convinient hailing them they’ll just pick up that person and never come to pick you up with no notice. They can’t follow basic GPS directions from their device and you often have to guide them.
The taxi companies send any complaints directly into the shredding machine. They have a legally enforced monopoly over a region and customers have no choice.
And I’m talking about a major city in America.
There is definitely a healthy middle ground, but just going back to taxis is not the solution.