‘It’s definitely backfiring’: Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is ‘hurting’ them::undefined

  • BearOfaTimeEnglish
    93·
    9 months ago

    How would that work, really? I can’t figure out how that could be regulated.

    • Cyber Yuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      9 months ago

      1. Establish a wage floor.

      2. Establish a price cap.

      If the corporation can’t make a profit from this, then perhaps their business model was not viable in the first place.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        51·
        9 months ago

        A price cap seems to be based on the premise that not having a service at all is better then having it be too expensive. I find that idea very questionable.

        • Cyber Yuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          9 months ago

          “Let’s treat our workers like slaves or else the entire economy will suffer” is a far worse take IMHO.

          • jdeathEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            i don’t think that is what they meant. is that a strawman you’re slaying?

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Replace that price cap with a wage cap for the people at the top that is based on the wages of everyone else in the company and companies it contracts (to avoid the obvious loophole as well as giving an actual mechanism for “trickle down”).

      • hydrospanner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        9 months ago

        “No fair! Our business model was very simple: price gouge the customer while exploiting our labor force!”