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We Don’t Need the Apple Vision Pro w/ Brian Merchant

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Impact of Proposition 22 on Drivers

Pablo Gomez and his co-conspirator there, Sergio, a Vadian who really just kind of collected the receipts. They had sort of used their influence to get Prop 22 passed that sort of spread all of these sort of half measures across a bunch of different agencies. And then yeah, drivers are getting thousands of dollars. If you're taking home hundreds of dollars a week and you have to pay for your own vehicle, you have topay for getting $2,000 is a huge boon. It's a huge help.

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Speaker 2
And that Uber story you did recently was fantastic. It was great to read the story and how these drivers had kind of found these terms in Proposition 22, which allowed a bunch of drivers across the state to get kind of payouts based on mileage and things like that, I believe it was. But then you shared on Twitter some of the messages that one of these guys who had found this was kind of getting from other Uber drivers and things like that who got these payouts and just like how thankful they were to receive this money and how impactful it was for them. And I think that's so just incredible. Right? Yeah.
Speaker 1
I mean, in that one, the credit all goes to Pablo Gomez and his co-conspirator there, Sergio, a Vadian who really just kind of collected the receipts. And I mean, that's just how the, especially the good companies, that's just how they work. But there's a corner that they can cut and get away with it. You can bet with 99% certitude that they will do it. So here is this corner that they had cut and because they had sort of used their influence to get Prop 22 passed that sort of spread all of these sort of half measures across a bunch of different agencies that it was very difficult to enforce the state, drop the ball to, but because this was a new enforcement mechanism that this agency, the treasury, wasn't used to enforcing. So no one sort of noticed it until these two drivers did and really sort of put pressure on the state to do it and then in turn put pressure. And then yeah, drivers are getting thousands of dollars. And if you're taking home hundreds of dollars a week and you have to pay for your own vehicle, you have to pay for getting $2,000 is a huge boon. It's a huge help. So yeah, all these elated messages were coming in that Sergio and Pablo were getting because I mean, yeah, I mean, he doesn't have to do this. You should have him on some time because he's got a million things to talk about. He keeps these giant Excel spreadsheets of it like every ride that he ever takes that would mapping it out to make sure that his data matches his pay and that Uber's not stiffing him and then he notices he has a show that he does on YouTube. That's not I mean to say little it's a it's getting a big audience because drivers come to rely on it in this for tips and for backup and he's become quite a force. So you know, cut us to him.
Speaker 2
Absolutely.

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