You cannot outlaw reality, no matter how attractive the idea or how hard you wish it were true.
Gig delivery drivers in Seattle are learning this the hard way (as are Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis).
Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches. https://t.co/8c5uUsYvrC @reason
— R Street Institute (@RSI) March 18, 2024
The good people of Seattle, or at least their representatives, professed great concern for the well-being of gig workers in the delivery market. They wanted to do them a solid by ensuring fair compensation for their efforts, so they came up with a wildly complicated system to ensure what amounted to a minimum wage.
It didn’t work out as planned.
In 2022, Seattle’s City Council passed an ordinance mandating a minimum earnings floor for app-based food delivery drivers in the city. The law finally
