In the Obama economy, too many people are looking for a job, any job. At least they are making a minimum wage in the cities that are being mentioned. What is that, $15 an hour now?
My husband drove for Uber after he lost his job. Minimum wage?? You couldn’t even ask Uber for 3 bucks after the passenger stubbed out his cigarette on the leather upholstery. Or demand payment from the deer that took off the fender when he was driving around in the middle of the night while the drunk passenger tried to remember where the next bar was.
Luckily, we recovered financially. Say no to Uber, drivers!
I had no experience with uber till a recent trip to Dallas. We used it exclusively to get around albeit we had a rental car. I could not believe how inexpensive it was. The advantage of using it was to not worry about parking, not worry about running into something or someone in a strange city and not worrying about the coppers pulling me over for DUI.
My sister in law was aghast I tipped the driver a good deal, which she did not offer to share beyond the fare. She, a democrat, said they discourage tipping. I pointed out there is almost no way the driver is making much more than a few dollars an hour NET. I added, I don’t believe in slave wages and a wage I know you would never work for. She is still miffed. So be it.
Any "job" where a person uses their own car extensively (UBER, pizza delivery, etc.) is nothing more than a way of slowly extracting the capital from their asset.
Drivers may think they are being paid for their time, but the reality is that they are putting enough wear on their cars that they are lowering its value by as much as they are making.
As a short-term stopgap measure in desperate times, this may be a way to make ends meet, but it does not substitute for a real job. What happens when the car requires an expensive repair and the driver can not pay for it?