re: Baton Rouge Uber drivers to strike Friday before Mardi Gras

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but BR didn't have taxi drivers to begin with

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Wat.

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I understand Uber decreasing rates to increase demand, but those rates just don't make sense for a driver.

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First of all, that is just the typical Uber rhetoric that they try to sell to drivers.

What truly happens when they drop rates, and keep them there for the year until the next rate cut is that there are initial drivers who quit after a rate cut, new drivers somehow eventually getting on board not knowing anything about the rate cuts taking fares that some of the older drivers are smart enough to not take (these fares (non-surge of course) are either very short fares or fares where they had to drive a long way to get to that rider).

When these drivers go after these useless fares (driving an insane amount of miles in the process), that allows Uber to justify the rate changes. Personally if drivers old or new still want to do that, that is their business. I'm simply pointing out what happens here.