What they're missing is that higher wages depend on some barrier to entry (there are many kinds) that protects the people who have jobs at the expense of anyone who is looking for a job.
As someone who works for a company with high hiring standards and correspondingly high pay, I have mixed feelings about this. It seems like there should be some jobs that are easy to get without much training, and taxi driver is a good candidate for this. If we build fences around every kind of job, life gets even harder for the unemployed.
So I'm not automatically on the side of workers with more "skin in the game." I'd need a stronger argument about why we should support them rather than part-time drivers.
As someone who works for a company with high hiring standards and correspondingly high pay, I have mixed feelings about this. It seems like there should be some jobs that are easy to get without much training, and taxi driver is a good candidate for this. If we build fences around every kind of job, life gets even harder for the unemployed.
So I'm not automatically on the side of workers with more "skin in the game." I'd need a stronger argument about why we should support them rather than part-time drivers.