The company has long used ride time and mileage to decide driver pay but is now turning to an opaque calculation called “Upfront Fares”
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The Markup: Secretive Algorithm Will Now Determine Uber Driver Pay in Many US Cities
Corruption
Reuters: EU watchdog slams Germany for lapses in Wirecard fraud
The German government is not sweeping the dirt under the carpet, it is shovelling it, especially SPD finance minister and chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz. Read here
Economics
Jonathan Portes vs Bill Mitchell – Are tax rises now inescapable?
Post-Covid, are taxes hikes essential to fund the future? Or should we abandon “deficit fetishism” and spend our way to prosperity? Read here Mural by Megan Wilson. Photo: victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons
EU politics
The Guardian: Amazon halved UK corporation tax bill to £4.5m last year
Although UK revenues hit $11.3bn last year, a healthy 19% year-on-year rise. Read here
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