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2025-01-01 21:47:08 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 1A1DF99E1AAAC33A0E5A631A2EF785A93D2516D80FB5B08A9DA74C0A884CA6C0
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Original Note:
Artificially capping the pay of Uber drivers would make it harder to find a driver, making the situation worse. Price caps have been known to cause shortages for over 1,700 years. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1231968 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/lactantius/demort.shtml This is because artificially lowering prices prevents supply from matching demand. https://www.econlib.org/a-strange-ignorance-of-the-effect-of-price-caps/
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