Uber has teams of economists focused on understanding policy issues in addition to pricing and incentive design – some of these teams produce outward facing research published in academic journals while others are completely inward facing. Though we came from all over the world - India, China, Pakistan, Europe, etc, the team was not very diverse - we were all of the same socio-economic and educational tribe. Now we are supposed to live in dense cities of millions of people with entirely different values, belief systems, and languages.When we once lived in small villages, perhaps even sharing space in a communal long house, now we are supposed to live in boxes stacked on top of boxes of strangers. The system is stable when there are 1 or 2 customers in the line, and 0 or 1 clerks serving them. One of the major blunders of economics.Thankfully, nothing bad happened to the economy back then.48% of Uber drivers have a BA or better.
Unfortunately, what happens at Uber doesn't stay at Uber. As President Captain Bolsonaro has pointed out, increasing production is essential.You are too funny! Right now I am preparing those kids for launch (not lunch).Wow, nice, thanks for sharing, you must have been good. Even so, there was minimal opportunity for social interaction.Everyday, especially during my 3 hours of commuting to and fro, I asked myself "How long can I stand this? It may be getting worse still, but unless you want the government to literally force people to stay in the same area, what solutions are there?Interesting comments towards the end, when two of the driver-critics say that they keep driving for Uber because no one else will provide them with the flexibility that they prioritize so highly.
I think we are running a big experiment. It is this lack of conceptual clarity that, ultimately, dooms freedom.The scrutiny of Uber is interesting - is it because so many people can see themselves, just possibly, as a contingency plan, driving for Uber?A friend worked at a couple of big-box stores in the early days of big box stores (Walmart, Home Depot). A free inside look at Uber salary trends based on 195 salaries wages for 70 jobs at Uber. Doesn't seem surprising, and it's not clear to me that Uber is worse than driving a taxi is.These numbers have a big limitation however: I believe that Uber has consistently lost money, pretty much every year and every place?
Salary Ranges and Breakdown. Spigot from Mexico spraying workers into certain industries less interesting to the educated or tech-savvy: priceless.
However, it seems to me a much more systemic, broad, and inevitable shift that you cannot pin on "libertarians and market types". There is a hushed vibe to these spaces. Am I making myself sick to put up against a sick day?" I had one 30 minute remote call via Zoom with each direct report once per week. Most people who love their jobs are pretty stupid or not in a demanding field I've found.Thanks Ray. Have a nice Sunday.The video did note the drivers' dissatisfactions and at the end supplied the same figure that I've read elsewhere: Uber drivers make about $10 per hour.What it failed to mention was how much do non-Uber taxi drivers make? We went to lunch together in local restaurants, worked out together in the fitness center, played in volleyball and softball leagues together, rode mountain bikes together after work, and had many more social bonds. One economist did offer a tweak Uber is considering to help women drivers, namely tweaking how riders are charged, with more weight in the algorithm for time spent on the ride than on the distance traveled. The atomic family as a stable (and IMO, grossly anemic) unit of community has basically been the american model from the beginning. That is to say, you might drag yourself to work, and find your shift was cancelled because of some determination that you were surplus that day. Economist 478f. They can get drunk on Friday night and not come in on Saturday, but typically they will then come in on Sunday. I was surrounded by people with the same educational and economic status, all with STEM degrees (mine in mathematics). Maybe, we are moving closer to Keynes's Leisure Society than we realize, although "leisure" may not be quite the right word for it.