Are private hire taxis killing a people’s future?

[Taylorshit]

By Benjamin Chiang​

The article below was drafted in reaction to this report on ChannelNewsAsia: "Flexibility, being your own boss, decent income: Why younger people are working as private hire drivers."

There are some people who are against the trade of private hire for this reason: they think it kills an individual’s employability and retirement adequacy.

Devadas Krishnadas posted the following on his LinkedIn page: “These jobs (referring to gigs such as private hire driving) have no professional value. Even plying the roads consumes vast amounts of energy… yet these drivers refer to themselves as their own bosses.”

“In truth, the real beneficiaries are the ride hailing companies all gunning for blockbuster IPO listings. Drivers constitute a free labour force for which they have no responsibility or liability.”

“While a number of drivers drive on a short term basis, for an increasing number it is becoming a long term proposition. As time passes and they continue driving their employability get eroded.”

Devadas thinks that drivers are being made used of. That long-term exposure to gigs, such as private hire driving, would reduce their employability and eventually see them completely being wiped out when technologies such as driverless cars replace them.​

More at https://www.domainofexperts.com/2019/06/are-private-hire-taxis-killing-peoples.html

 

[True Believer]

Devadas Krishnadas posted the following on his LinkedIn page: “These jobs (referring to gigs such as private hire driving) have no professional value. Even plying the roads consumes vast amounts of energy… yet these drivers refer to themselves as their own bosses.”​

Grab Driver: "I love my job after I got retrenched. I am my own boss and drive when I feel like it. Nobody tells me what to do."
Passenger: "Slow down, stop talking, pay attention to the road and take a left turn at the next traffic junction".

 

[Truthspeak]

Their job will somehow be taken over by robots in 2030

 

[True Believer]

Their job will somehow be taken over by robots in 2030

Most PMEs are using Chat GPT to assist in their work. Soon, employers will be able to get by with 1/2 their current headcount.

 

[Truthspeak]

Most PMEs are using Chat GPT to assist in their work. Soon, employers will be able to get by with 1/2 their current headcount.

They usher AI aggressively, wanted people to embrace it and yet sheeple still jump into this rabbit hole. They are courting their own death

 

[congo9]

Able to use AI Tool at work is about productivity. Less headcount and more free time.

We work harder but lesser.

 

[mahjongking]

look at the big picture....our young are turning into grab drivers, grab food deliverers...
our old are turning into food centre cleaners, tissue sellers....fuck pap

 

[mojito]

Yes u choose brighter future who pay ur bills today?

 

[syed putra]

Grab Driver: "I love my job after I got retrenched. I am my own boss and drive when I feel like it. Nobody tells me what to do."
Passenger: "Slow down, stop talking, pay attention to the road and take a left turn at the next traffic junction".

Food delivery also same. Get to Pick your client base some more.

 

[JohnTan]

By Benjamin Chiang​

The article below was drafted in reaction to this report on ChannelNewsAsia: "Flexibility, being your own boss, decent income: Why younger people are working as private hire drivers."

There are some people who are against the trade of private hire for this reason: they think it kills an individual’s employability and retirement adequacy.

Devadas Krishnadas posted the following on his LinkedIn page: “These jobs (referring to gigs such as private hire driving) have no professional value. Even plying the roads consumes vast amounts of energy… yet these drivers refer to themselves as their own bosses.”

“In truth, the real beneficiaries are the ride hailing companies all gunning for blockbuster IPO listings. Drivers constitute a free labour force for which they have no responsibility or liability.”

“While a number of drivers drive on a short term basis, for an increasing number it is becoming a long term proposition. As time passes and they continue driving their employability get eroded.”

Devadas thinks that drivers are being made used of. That long-term exposure to gigs, such as private hire driving, would reduce their employability and eventually see them completely being wiped out when technologies such as driverless cars replace them.​

More at https://www.domainofexperts.com/2019/06/are-private-hire-taxis-killing-peoples.html

Many Grab drivers earn $200 a day or $5000 a month. That's good pay.

 

[True Believer]

look at the big picture....our young are turning into grab drivers, grab food deliverers...our old are turning into food centre cleaners, tissue sellers....fuck pap

Pay And Pay doesn't give a fuck so long as the $$$ keeps rolling into their bank accounts.

 

[True Believer]

Many Grab drivers earn $200 a day or $5000 a month. That's good pay.

You are referring to a PHV driver's gross income i.e. the total amount he earns. His net income i.e. actual business profit after expenses and allowable deductions are removed, is far less.

 

[Taylorshit]

John Tan is an idiot.

 

[k1976]

look at the big picture....our young are turning into grab drivers, grab food deliverers...
our old are turning into food centre cleaners, tissue sellers....fuck pap

A good roadmap, boss John?

 

[k1976]

John Tan is an idiot.

大智若愚

 

[JohnTan]

You are referring to a PHV driver's gross income i.e. the total amount he earns. His net income i.e. actual business profit after expenses and allowable deductions are removed, is far less.

Too bad for him then. He should have studied harder in school. Then he would have been able to hold down a permanent job without getting retrenched permanently.

 

[tobelightlight]

They still use being employed as the main income generator of a person. How sad.

 

[True Believer]

Too bad for him then. He should have studied harder in school. Then he would have been able to hold down a permanent job without getting retrenched permanently.

I know of many talented ex-classmates from secondary school, JC and NUS who were laid off because of downsizing, ageism and cronyism when an incoming CEO "cleaned house" of the existing management team to make way for his former colleagues. It is not a matter of these older PMEs not upgrading or upskilling themselves; they were victims who fell off the cliff in their late 40s or 50s, with no way back to a white collar position.