there's no such a thing as a free market, more like a monopoly.

​@@AT-nq6cu Maybe that is because instead of leaving their jobs for new ones with better pay (forcing companies to compete) They force the monopoly "they hate" to pay them higher wages through the government.. eliminating possible competition.

The government should not be able to go into a private company and tell them how much they pay its independent contractors. When the government starts to do that, your country has turned into a fascist country.

@@chelseyt7091 Comcast have no competition, do they? You have to go the streaming route.

Obviously this sounds like a rider, no idea what it’s like to be a driver…

Taxi Cost more then a Uber about Twice or 3 Times a price the price only live here 7 years. I would rather walk before I take a taxi

ya, so you can listen to Pakistani on your ride home.. FUN

What's a taxi?

@@Steelers2841 Yet that's what it costs for DRIVERS TO ACTUALLY MAKE A LIVING. Why do you think that the rideshare drivers are standing for?

Sure, and pay 4 times the price.

Austin also has 3x more people than what the Twin Cities has. There is little incentive for them to come back.

They came back when Texas told Austin to f itself. They supplanted the law Austin was trying to put into effect. They will leave and not come back if the law isn’t changed.

I agree with that. Economically, there were too many drivers so each get paid less. If there were less drivers, the companies would be forced to pay them more. I knew soneone who treated Uber Eats as a full time job. Needless to say he struggled to find affordable housing until I knocked some sense into him. The solution was really simple, don't work for them if you aren't making enough money. That is how the job market works.

Correct. Lyft driver here. I only drive when I’m able to use the Lyft filter of 5 miles. After the filter is gone which we get twice a day I stop. Gas over here is 3.48 a gallon and these rides are 19 to 30 miles away. Plus those trips take you out your area.

Can’t you see the ride before you accept?

What? It's PAID

Too bad so many of these people defending Uber just to take a jab at Biden and the democrats could do half the research you did.

They aren't supposed to do that. Greedy company has to get their cut.

Still paid...

Yep. Uber is predatory to both riders and drivers.

Twin cities has robust public transportation infrastructure, that is probably why the mayor killed the uber/lyft business to force more people onto the public transport.

@@andrews6323Mayor vetoed, City Council overide the veto!

It really is. It's impossible to even get outside the city or even go between Minneapolis and Saint Paul in a reasonable amount of time on public transportation.

Then don't become a Lyft driver if you didn't like the pay. They're supplemental income jobs and take no skill. Lyft and Uber leaving is the price of putting ideology over reality.

The problem is that not a single driver for Lyft or Uber does it compulsively. If you don't like the wage you're getting at job A, you're welcome to look for job B.

Everyone gets paid what they are worth to their employer. Duh.

​@bulleitupyourazz8168 they take no skill? Well, we all know who here can't drive. Bet you this moron wouldn't say the samething about a limo driver.

​@@FlatEarthMatha lot of rideshare people do it because it is a better job than job B that some times pays a little better and sometimes pays worse. You are defending a company that charges the rider and the driver for the service in which they are making 90% of what the driver makes while having most of their service done by AI. They themselves make an hourly wage and do less work. They themselves have better benefits. The people who actually work get nothing and in any other job that would be called wage theft.

Uber is more expensive

😆 it ain't 2015 anymore

@@joeMW284 Yes, but if there isn’t competition from Uber and Lyft, Taxi prices will increase.

Stop that lie . A Taxi is not more expensive. Just say you wouldn't know how to do it .

​@@user-ok9ue8gp6kMake up your mind . Is it more expensive or not .

Resounding success as usual.

Just blame everything on the Democrats then no one has to fix anything.

😂

Democrats are not in charge of Alabama or Arkansas, MS, LA to name a few.

Typical Trumper response. Delusional and out of touch with reality.

My 64-year-old mother who is on social security has a limited income and you're telling her to take a taxi?

​@TheDjg1983 And on an every day basis too.

People Just cheap and don’t want to pay but they want someone to increase depreciation on their car for free.

Thanks I drive a cab in Columbia South Carolina Uber and Lyft are cutting our throats everyday they do sometimes offer economical transportation but most of the time they surcharge the hell out of the public without compensating their drivers !! We hear the Uber and Lyft drivers complaining all the time it is bad for all of us 😕

Cabs are so danm expensive.

@@dwayneard5997 Juneau, Alaska here. Been driving cab for 20 years. When it's bad, it's really bad. But, we grind it out. 24/7/365 is the company's commitment to the city. That includes a local dispatcher around the clock. Our job is not a "gig."

Uber and Lyft both charge you and the drive 90% of what the driver is getting paid. Those guys could charge less and still pay drivers more and still turn a huge profit. They would rather not take a pay cut and yet would give up 3 entire states of customers and lose all that profit rather than pay the drivers more. The drivers by the way do all the work.

@@danielessex2162shut up pls.

Now let's watch the games begin

​@@danielessex2162True, but now they have left Minneapolis and a bunch of people are now stranded. So trying to force a corporation to do the right thing has only led to more problems including job loss for the drivers due to government meddling. No amount of moralizing is going to fix the situation.

@@djjerome yup, drivers were crying about $ but what they were really crying about is not wanting to work a harder job. Now they will have to.

Call a taxi you cheap people 🤣🤣

@@A.z.p47I’d rather risk it than deal with those horrible companies.

@@scubaseppy well start walking, this corrupt corporations need to step out of this country, I’m not moving my car for drunk people and I’m not a slave of this corporations.

@@A.z.p47 yeah me either, I don’t know why anyone would do that job.

They can keep on driving.

Moron.

It's like a bud light moment. Only cities. Leftist cities. ✨️✨️✨️🤔🤔🤔😜😜😜🐒🐒🐒😎😎😎

Socialist ? 😢

​@@moshesierra6849leftist??? ✨️✨️✨️🤔🤔🤔😜😜😜🐒🐒🐒😎😎😎

​@daroob so your happy and believe this is a good outcome. ✨️✨️✨️🤔🤔🤔😜😜😜🐒🐒🐒😎😎😎

What other ride share company? And why would this fictional company do that?

No other company wants to step into a city that creates a hostile work environment for companies

There aren't any lol

If you hate it so bad get out

Let's see proof.

Duh state took $50 in tax and fees

​@@chrisfriday7666Just look online at driver's forums. They've got screenshots. I did Uber for a while and there were many rides that I would just break even without tips. And I drive a cheap, reliable car. I enjoyed the social aspect but Uber started playing games with the app. Like if you rejected a ride because of how low the pay was, they would stop giving you rides. Sad because it's a cool system and if they charged passengers reasonable prices and paid drivers reasonably, they would still be successful. They're just constantly chasing quarter to quarter profits to get their bonuses.

Get a better job!

Did you pay it? Did they accept it? Then it must’ve been fine. Don’t like it then do something, don’t use Lyft or Uber, take the bus, taxi, bike or keep complaining. The government rarely makes things better.

Do you realize Uber and Lyft just recently started making a profit after being a company in all 50 states for years and years and years? They’re not making a profit before now. So you’re talking about being greedy, but from their point of you their investors are literally making nothing back because they have been paying out so much. It’s easy to say they’re greedy when you don’t know what they’re paying. I don’t know either.

That’s true

💯 true. Greedy corporate never satisfied 😌

You are being lied to

Please show proof of this

SHUT UP and call the labor department and they will educate you

@@unclebrew9536nope. Uber SHUT UP and left the city. 😂

@@unclebrew9536🚨bot alert🚨

You never worked as a teenager, did you? It’s called minimum wage,

@@KristopherYurkovichminimum wage is for hourly employees. Not contractors genius. Is the local city government going to make a law requiring Uber to stay in Minneapolis now too. 😂

Or drivers could simply find a better job

Drivers that choose to get paid like that. Rideshare Apps also sell your data.

Racist Trumper

You are extremely silly.i guess you are a share holder.

I am. So? Enjoy being poor.

Hahaha who said I am poor.i can pay you to drive me all day trust me on that

@@unclebrew9536 Your shtty grammar exposes you, boy. Lol Stop commenting and take an English class. Then get off welfare and get a job. lol 😂

@@simozaz4736 Oh they’re being freed of everything right now. lol

Where were you when the TC taxi drivers had their jobs taken by new immigrants who had the full support of the local government behind them and against longtime taxi drivers? What goes around, comes around. It is their turn now to have their jobs disappear due to a move by the city council.

I used to work for Uber. I agree with the state 100%

Business, not personal.

And something I didn't see in this article the way in Minneapolis hates the police but loves George Floyd and and crime I can only imagine how many Lyft in Uber drivers have been either shot or criminalized

what you fail to realize is the city has the raw data and the profits that uber and lyft are making is huge and they have more than enough to pay stop giving millions of dollars in bonuses you dirty pieces of corporate garbage and even more millions and worstless prmotions everybpdy know wtf uber and lyft are at this point word of mouth is free advertizing and marketing they need to be taught a lesson

​@@suequick334ignoring the fact both Lyft and Uber tell their drivers not to carry fire arms because it can get them banned from the App.... but no let's blame the states, which by the way say the drivers should be allowed to carry for self defense reasons.

Minimum wage is too high? So take out food is too high priced? You do know most places fired their drivers because people order specifically through Uber eats and other such apps which overcharge you for deliveries. Maybe that's your problem you keep ordering through apps or ignoring the fact that many places use the new minimum wage raise as an excuse to increase their profits even more. Many companies like Uber are already making 2 billion dollars they can go without the price increase and can pay better.

You are being charged extremely high but that poor driver is making only 2-3$ for that delivery.These companies have gotten extremely GREEDY

Your inflation took place with the Trump administration idiot. He had two years with a Republican left House and Senate and what did he do? NOTHING.

Poor darling, no food delivery cheaply?

@@danielessex2162 Shows you don't know me - Pal...I don't have an iphone...I have a cheap flip-phone that costs $9 a month. The thing barely texts and can take a photo.. What does your i-phone cost? Doesn't matter much now - Doctor told me time to lose weight, dump sugars and bread, and reduce my cholesterol.... All the more reason NOT to buy fast-food. Side note - I ONLY drive to get my food...I never trust anyone else delivering it to me...

Its still the plan.

What is the DFL?

BS both companies are making as much as the drivers are. If their profits are down then they themselves caused it. A few states have already made mention that rideshare companies have raised the rates just prior to talks about states discussing rideshare employees getting hourly wages. Last year Uber made 2 billion in profits don't tell me they are hurting.

If you can't pay your workers a living wage, you don't get to have a business.

@@Distortion0 I think we have same ideas but different way of getting there. You say the problem is they aren’t making enough I say the government is inflating away currency value and their money isn’t going as far. There’s countless KZfaq videos of riders bragging about averaging $20-30-50-60/ hr Sometimes they get paid good sometimes they don’t. It’s their right not to accept the job. Now that government has stepped into our lives again these people have 0 work Bottom line it is supply and demand pricing if there are not enough drivers taking rides prices will tick up But they are taking the rides then crying about it.

@@Distortion0 yeah agreed but notice the CEOs of these companies make far more than a living wage and they don't do a quarter of the work they drivers do.

@@Distortion0 if my boss isn’t paying me enough I get another job

Totally agree! Wouldn’ surprise me if they took daily payouts away, start getting paid once a week, no more working the hours you want to work, no more 1099’s could be worse than ever!

Preach

And if you want slave wage drivers get your own car

"Wage Greedy"? What a ridiculous thing to say!

Unfortunately that's not the case here. Uber wages used to be somewhat reasonable, unlike McDonald's. Then someone at Uber decided they could find ways to manipulate drivers and passengers with the app. For example, surge pricing. Would you be willing to pay 5x the price for a McDonald's hamburger just because there was a long line of customers in the drive through? When they do surge pricing, that driver doesn't get any additional money. So the customer is frustrated, the driver is frustrated even though he's in demand and should be paid more, but Uber wins. Drivers used to get a higher portion of the fare and Uber was very profitable, so this obviously has nothing to do with bottom lines. They're focusing on quarter to quarter profits at the expense of their customers and drivers. They know that if drivers leave, they can just find some other naive person to join. Remember there is zero driver training. McDonald's puts time and money into training. Uber sends you a video to watch and sends you on your way. Don't get me wrong, I agree that additional wages affect most businesses, but in this case it's not wage greed as you called it, it's corporate greed. Got to please that board and those shareholders. There are times doing Uber that you might break even on a ride if you don't get tips. Nobody expects to necessarily make Uber their only job, but not having a minimum wage means you can even lose money on rides. Businesses are not what they used to be 25 years ago.

No, white people didn’t run them out of town. The city Council raised the wages so Uber and lyft left

Taxis are atleast 2x more. That’s why Lyft and Uber was so popular I D I O T 😒

People get barely anything on disability and you want them to pay significantly more just to get around?

Who

And charge more.

​@@morbward8281no Uber and Lyft already charge the driver and the rider...any other rideshare company could do the same as a Limo company. Still make profits and still pay a livable wage. Seriously do you know how much a limo service charges and you aren't even riding in a limo. Like where do you get your facts from?

Thats great, you still didn't answer just who these large ride share companies can just drop right in as if they have the same resources and money like multi-national corporations like Uber and Lyft and replace them as if they never happened? Who are these companies and are they these multi-national corporations who make $2 billion in profits annually you keep saying they have? If you have all the answers and can name companies, tell me who are they and how can they magically save the day automatically in Uber and Lyft's absence?

​@@davidroberts7282They can't because there isn't.

Yeah like magic - lol

Not with the current laws

​@@bulleitupyourazz8168 yeah far more easily than when Uber and Lyft first came to the scene.

​@@tomhenry897sure they can even more easily than when Uber and Lyft first opened up.

I'm sure their multinational corporations like Uber and Lyft are bringing in $ 2-3 billion yearly?

Possibly all three. If they cared about their constituents, they would have created an alternative to address the mobility and affordability gaps. But instead they blunt forced through what they wanted instead of thinking about the consequences and now the poor and disabled have to literally pay the price.

@@HichigoShirosaki1 I think Uber was net profit world wide something like60 billion in2022 so the City council wants to side with people that work for uber and lyft who complain that uber and lyft should pay more. But I know some people that do that job and they do pretty good making money if they put effort, AND they can basically pick their own hours. Bottom line i that the situation should take care of itself.If the people don't want to do the job, someone else will. If no one will do the job then they would need to pay more to the workers. Common sense! But once the authoritarian government decides to interfere, the situation gets worse. This is what we might call Gov. over reach, or the democratic process. More mommy daddy government and less of the citizens natural order of things.

Pay their contractors. Drivers aren't employees. They are contractors. The work is similar to freelancing.

You don't pay slaves at all it's completely different and irrelevant.

Exactly! Instead of leaving the company for a better paying job (which would force competition & higher wages) they decide to bring in the government "they hate" and work against their own interests? Ugh 🤦

You are rather ignorant.i dare you run for their seats if you can.go ahead.They listened to their people.common sense should rather prompt you to put pressure on the mayor to provide more public transportation

You call people MORONS just because they demanded minimum pay standard for drivers???YOU ARE SICK.Respect peoples views

@@unclebrew9536 I never said a single word you said. People should demand minimum wage for sure, but where I laugh, is at the reaction afterward. When you make it too expensive to drive in your city, people will have a harder time getting around. This is what they WANTED. Then they complain after. I find that funny. 0 It's my sense of humor whether you like it or not! Ha

Who are THEM, the ones you live next door to who you can't understand? Go ahead, just say it, your racist mind is already thinking about it!

​@@unclebrew9536They are lol, by having the government force higher pay they lost their jobs completely... Learn how capitalism works and you'll understand. If they wanted a good outcome, they should've quit Uber and gone somewhere else. That creates competition, which means higher wages.. Also, they are not being forced to work there. If they want to make more money they can find another job. Bringing in the government is extremely dumb.

​@@chelseyt7091You're asking people to understand basic economics in a city where they struggle just to teach basic math. There is little hope for that.

Yeah, taxicabs & buses. It'll just cost the public more money to get where they're going

@@M.O.W. Cheaper if using public transportation?

​@@M.O.W.And by "the public", what you really mean is the poor and disabled. That's exactly the problem on top of the limited availability of cabs now.

They can join the crowd of many more who have suffered job and business losses since 2020.

They are contractors. The aren't fired, they just aren't allowed to operate inside of Minneapolis.

Metro Transit is $2.00 Non -Rush , Weekends and Holidays it 3.00 During 6-9am and 3pm-6:30pm MVTA is the Same. Southwest Transit runs Monday-Saturday

Plus, there are free assaults and robberies.

You are wrong.the fact that is part time doesn’t mean being exploited.

Thank you! Exactly

@@unclebrew9536 It does mean that you should not expect a high living wage for driving others.

You guys complain about what a Lyft or Uber drivers should be making. my question is why don't you get your own car with your regular full-time job? Is it because you can't afford one?

@@ifyouknewbetteryouddobette7638 You will have to specifically ask the poor, the elderly, and the disabled that question.

No it is not. It is the government's job to make sure people make a livable wage. Why aren't you talking about how Uber and Lyft make 2 billion in profits as if paying better is gonna make them go broke? Seriously you need to go back to math class.

@@danielessex2162 Who maintains the website for these companies? The drivers? No. Higher-skilled people in the middle get some of the money from making each ride possible.

@user-px9nx9pc7k it also doesn't take higher skill to run or maintain a website. They got apps now that make it as simple as can be. Also thanks for not addressing my point.

Except that the people opposed to the first two also don't want to invest in public transportation.

And who did you vote for? LMAO

Enslaved to a computer program...

That’s not the drivers $. The money the driver agreed to is what they get paid. If they don’t like it get another job. Or keep crying and they will get replaced with robots that don’t I don’t sell a 60,000 car and cry because they stole 59,000 of my money lol

Call one of the alternatives, or a tow truck.

Taxis still exist.... busses still exist.... bikes still exist... Minneapolis even has scooters you can rent.

@@Sylvershade taxi’s are overpriced 🚕 , I’m not sure people use them anymore. I wish Minnesota had a lot more public transportation like in New York and England.

@@simonbelmont65 Taxis are cheaper than Uber or Lyft lol

Are they cheaper? I guess that shows how little I know. Does Taxi have a separate app?

You can't believe a business who has a program called God Veiw to show all pickups and dropoffs, at one time had a site to dox people who had potential one night stands, and who sells all location and trip data would be selfish? I want to live in your fantasy world where everything is rosy.