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Rika_Furude posted...

Its for that reason Im against gig work as a whole. I dont use Uber either

No, that's your problem with big money sticking its nose into what should have stayed as a grassroots, local entity. Trying to profit off the gig economy under the guise of "exposure" and "getting everyone connected with a job" has turned what was a good concept into a profit-driven enterprise that has no room for doing right by all the participating parties.

And truth be told ride sharing has managed to keep its soul even with big money involved. It can be better, sure, but by and large it's still fairly up-and-up from my point of view (at least fundamentally). Rather than ceding the duty of ferrying people around to a taxi company that gets to make all the decisions you instead let individuals willing to participate in the system voluntarily approach a company looking to pair them with fares and shuttle people needing to go places around. Then those drivers can ensure the service they provide is exceptional and earn a bonus from the person they taxied in addition to a base fare paid by the service provider.

Food delivery has lost its soul by going corporate because of how detached everything is (people order food, a restaurant makes it, someone goes to get it -- it's all very disparate). This lack of interaction between everyone means that the whole process is fairly obfuscated from anyone involved so the company pulling the strings can simply tell a dissatisfied party that "that's how it works," and not need to provide justification for why it does. Driver not happy with their fee? Customers pay tips for services received, don't they? Customer doesn't like pre-tipping? Hey, we got a business to run, we can't be expected to pay these drivers the ENTIRE cost for the run, you gotta pitch in too. Restaurant says their cut is too small? We expanded your customer base by letting you market to people farther away, didn't we?