I can't believe people still use Uber

[pecosbob]

42. Sympathy to anyone feeling victimized, but it is what it is...

What part of driving one's own vehicle to transport people made anyone ever believe it would pay a living wage? Seems to me a lot of people let these companies blow smoke up their collective ass. I fully support and sympathize with anyone being victimized by the ride-share companies, but I've been a courier and a delivery driver of sorts on and off all my life, and believe me the margins never were there for this to happen. The economics just aren't there to support driving people around in your car and getting paid twenty dollars an hour to do it (or whatever a LW would be in your region). Most of the drivers that I know of that do make a decent living are members of unions.

IMO if you are routed by dispatcher then you should be considered an employee by law. I have always considered the taxi-cab industry's business model to be exploitive in the extreme. There simply was no reason for the ride-share companies not to do the same. That's the working world, folks...you're simply not going to make forty or fifty grand as an independent chauffeur, particularly when your 'employer' dumped most of the cost of the operation onto your back. Record profits for shareholders and more Americans slide toward the poverty line. It's another step forward in the Walmart/Amazon Jurassic Park Economy.