excellent points.
If Uber drivers are so exploited, why are so many wanting to work for Uber?
Uber exists due to willing buyers and willing sellers of the service coming together, and riders get their ride to where they need to go. Uber drivers do it to get paid and if they weren’t earning enough to make it worth their while, they wouldn’t drive for Uber.
Would love to be educated on what we are missing here.
Traditional cab companies have long had a chummy fascist relatioship with city governments where the city raises barriers to entry for alternatives, and the taxi companies that are allowed to operate pay the city good protection money. Uber has very deliberately upended that business model with a straight capitalist alternative. Both Bernie and Hillary hate Uber as a result.