• @RalphFurley
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    243 months ago

    As someone who lives here and doesn’t drive, services like this are extremely valuable to me

      • @RalphFurley
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        43 months ago

        I agree and I’m happy to pay more. I just hope this doesn’t go away.

      • @errer
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        -83 months ago

        Why do these drivers get paid a 50% higher wage than minimum wage? EMT drivers don’t even get this much

          • @errer
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            -63 months ago

            That’s what the minimum wage is for.

            • sunzu
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              33 months ago

              Sounds like somebody feels entitled to another mans labour at certain prices lol

              • @errer
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                03 months ago

                Sounds like someone thinks a particular class of worker should make more than their peers for arbitrary reasons.

                • sunzu
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                  23 months ago

                  I think min wage should be set where a person can live without transfer payments from the state and food banks

                  • @errer
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                    03 months ago

                    Cool, then Uber drivers should make minimum wage and the push should be to increase minimum wage.

        • @AtariDump
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          83 months ago

          You’re right, and I’m angry too.

          EMT drivers should be paid more (as well as the Uber/Lyft drivers)!

        • Because part of the time they aren’t being paid at all for their work and a good chunk of that money goes into the vehicle and fuel itself. After accounting for all the unpaid labor hours and expenses, it probably still comes out sub-minimum-wage.

      • @fishpen0
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        43 months ago

        We have it but the trains are catching on fire and derailing and they shut the orange line down for a month to try to fix it. Meanwhile one of our main tunnels is also collapsing so that’s shut down too. My home is one mile from downtown and it’s also directly on a bike path that goes into the city, which is also closed because it’s also collapsing into the mystic river. It currently takes me 40 minutes to get downtown no matter what transit I take including walking.

        • sunzu
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          33 months ago

          American infrastructure in its full glory…

          And the clowns pretend like we are gonna get a high speed rail anytime soon lol

          • @fishpen0
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            33 months ago

            We also have buses. Believe it or not they drive on the same roads that are backed up because of the tunnels being closed. Weird how that works.