Uber to pay $20M to settle U.S. claims it misled drivers
I suspect there&#x27;s some legal strategy here, but this fine seems pretty meh. The real punishment should be paying them what they advertised: 600,000 * 0.10 (at least 10 percent of all drivers were paid less) * 15&#x2F;hr (average advertised wage) * 40 hours = 36M minimum. More if you do a more granular analysis. Keep in mind, this is just paying them what they advertised. There should also be a large consequence for lying to begin with.<p>Without severe punishment for doing this, there&#x27;s little reason to not do it. You and your team can just do a cost-benefit analysis and see if it&#x27;s worth lying. Why not have a super severe punishment to discourage this type of behavior forever? Say 10% of all revenue since this was in place? This is just another practice that supports big-business. Large firms can easily absorb these kind of minimal fines. To pay they&#x27;ll layoff the people who had nothing to do with this. Leadership isn&#x27;t going to be affected by this.<p>All companies with revenue in the billions should be fined in the billions at minimum. As a society, are we going to allow companies to lie and deceive in the name of &quot;disruption&quot;? We already know how that went once during 2008 (of course it&#x27;s not the same thing here).<p>EDIT:<p>I realize that I used the word &#x27;fine&#x27;, when really this is a settlement. They&#x27;re not the same, but I hope the point I&#x27;m making still gets across.