Uber, Lyft and others will have to shut down in California Aug. 20

Dat darned virus?

No, just Democrats running their tyranny for the unions.

How Will people move around then?

"California’s anti-freelancing law, AB5, was aimed primarily at forcing companies like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees and guarantee “minimum wage” and employee benefits at the expense of flexibility and autonomy. When the law went into effect on January 1, 2020, Uber and Lyft’s business models continued essentially without a hitch while hundreds of thousands of other professionals who’d worked as independent contractors – speech therapists, translators, respiratory therapists, writers, photographers, bartenders, musicians, and many more – were immediately negatively impacted, some losing their incomes entirely."

Newsom will panic in the 11th hour and exempt those companies from the law which bans free-lance workers.

Voting for assholes has consequences

Ride-sharing apps could work around the laws exemptions. For instance, I am an independent contractor and unaffected because I provide a service to the client that is not the client's primary business, and make more than double the minimum wage.

If Lyft and Uber portray their primary business as providing logistics and apps to the ride sharing drivers, they may find a workaround. Or, they could let the drivers set their own prices and take a cut. The nice thing about letting drivers set their own prices is that it would incite a "race-to-the-bottom" mentality where drivers would try to undercut each other. This would drive pricing down and the drivers' earnings as well. The positive thing being... lowering the drivers' earnings would be opposite of what AB5 was trying to enforce, thus sticking it to the lawmakers and showing them that more laws equals more unintended consequences.

And so on.




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very unlikely this will happen
more nothing burgers
going to get on the grill

Nothingburgers for everyone
Including a special coronaburger
filled with you guessed it

nothing.

The attorney for Uber is Kalama’s sisters husband. West is his last name.

He is an ex USDOJ senior official under Obama admin. said he was 3rd charge or something. Like two levels under AG.

I posted about it in the Uber thread about 2 days ago.