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Did the ordinance specify that the app companies would have to absorb the costs and NOT pass them to the users? No? Ah, well, that explains it then.
How would that work, really? I can't figure out how that could be regulated.
Establish a wage floor.
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.
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.
"Let's treat our workers like slaves or else the entire economy will suffer" is a far worse take IMHO.
i don’t think that is what they meant. is that a strawman you’re slaying?