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orbifold on July 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber Makes Economists Sad

Lowering or increasing the cut that Uber takes for example.

icebraining on July 10, 2014 | [–]

Uber's cut is just 20%, so the effect would be relatively low unless they wanted to dramatically lower the average pay of the drivers.

w4 on July 10, 2014 | [–]

Why would a rational actor take a reduced profit in the face of increased demand for their product?

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