I have absolutely zero respect for tech companies who wantonly and shamelessly break the laws and abuse their workers in the name of "disruption". They give the industry a bad name.
As such, I honestly cannot wait to see this company go out of business.
If we're lucky, they will take a large swathe of the "gig economy" with them when they finally die.
And every one of them has been getting paid less and less each year Uber has existed to there point that some of them can't take care of their own families. I don't think anyone has a problem with the service, consumers are just getting tired of subsidizing the wealthy through taxation policies that advantage people who already have money and low wages across numerous verticals.
- it doesn't matter how the wealth transfer ends as long as untold billions are burned on a dead end, those people will lose their jobs regardless
- and if Uber does not go bust that means they've cracked the self driving problem in which case those people will be out of a job again
- In the meantime Uber is happy to exploit those people by having them engage in a thinly veiled race to the bottom, one where Uber sets the rules and they walk off with the bulk of the gross which they then spend on their own inefficient machine.
You really can't win with such actors in the market, Uber clearly isn't in it to be a 'good employer', in fact they've done everything they could to strip away what rights those people would have had as employees.
So long as the employees are taken care of, fine. If they need to work more than standard hours to make a living wage after expenses, they are being taken advantage of. It’s as simple as that.
As such, I honestly cannot wait to see this company go out of business.
If we're lucky, they will take a large swathe of the "gig economy" with them when they finally die.
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