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In the current US marketplace, $9/hr for essentially a zero skill delivery driver isn’t terrible, is it?

I expect some people may take issue with "In the current US marketplace", including me, but I don't have enough info at hand to comment, so I won't!

But, I will note, according to https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm, the current minimum wage in California is either $10.50 or $11.00 per hour, and so yes, that's pretty terrible.

Note to mention…

>We scraped together only about $9.00 per hr for our eight hours of work, even before accounting for the cost of gas and the time we saved by working as a group.

Note the "we" and the "even before accounting for the cost of gas". I think they meant $9 per hour for the group, which means that's less than $9 per hour per person. Also, that doesn't include the cost of fuel or wear and tear on the car.

they probably had more than one person in the car, which is probably against tos anyway. The first day they made $63 in 5 hours, about 12.50. but the second day was $12 in 3 hours.

basically postmates should have told them to logout the second day. and $16 for 2.5 hours for the laptop is really bad.

the first 2.5 hours they were making $19/hour. it seems like all of these platforms you can make an OK wage if you learn how to game bonuses/surge pay/demand, but its counter to the work whenever you want.

It was a qualification, of sorts, meant to suggest “regardless of principle or viewpoint”. I.e., the tasks mentioned generally required less skill than most minimum wage jobs ostensibly require.

Admittedly, I was working from anecdotal evidence off the top of my head (e.g., banners on fast food chains proclaiming “starting at $XX/hr”) and not hard data.

Personally I believe paying less than livable wages is criminal in most instances.

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