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andrewjl
New leadership is proving to be adept at messaging all the right things. Looking forward to see if they're able to go beyond that.
e_b
Not necessary. Let Uber and Lyft run out of venture capital and start running their businesses in a P&L world and they'll soon have to adapt to markrt realities, including establishing a benefits system to keep the people who work for them today working for them in the future.
vinniejames
Considering they don't plan to keep any human drivers past the point self driving cars come out, this feels disingenuous
toomuchtodo
Neither rideshare company will last long enough to see self driving vehicles come to fruition.
e_b
Selfdriving is never happening.
legostormtroopr
How did you misspell “benefits” offsetting both non consecutive “e”s backwards?
carlmr
His e is trapped in a time anomaly.
TomMarius
I would write this with one hand on E and the other one on B and N. All it takes is to get out of sync (and it happens to me fairly often when I sit at the computer after a longer period, e.g. an hour).
godzillabrennus
I don't see how the government is going to continue letting companies get away without paying employment taxes on all these workers.

Guess by the time they realize they are losing that revenue the self driving cards will be here.

[dead] dbuder
Uber treats its drivers like employees and should have fulfill the obligations that entails. If they are cheaper than the competition because they avoid this then they don't deserve to be cheaper! If they are truly losing the kind of money they claim, then society shouldn't shoulder the burden for the investors' speculative venture.
bstre
Hard to imagine this won't end up looking like a private exchange without subsidy. Except in this case, the union is involved and would act as the arbiter of a "dues to benefits" model. I think this perhaps the only way this could work.