Is this a real question? It is called opportunity cost. They clearly don’t have anything better going.

i don’t have a problem with Uber or drivers, Its still a real job, anything that pays the bills is a job, but nobody owes you a job or anything else.

I don’t think he’s wrong. He and the entirety of Uber’s driver base are what makes Uber successful. Without the drivers they would have nothing. Uber is using money the drivers earned to develop AI that will replace them. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want a portion of their diverted salaries.

It became so the day that Uber decided that they weren’t just a “oh maybe some dudes might be on the app to do a few rides on the side” and wanted to be a “you get a ride anywhere, anytime” and started courting a workforce to meet that demand. You can’t offer scam bonus incentives to drivers, hook them on to car…

“These people can also just stop driving for uber and get a different job. Their call.”

“When did we decide to stop taking personal responsibility for our actions and rely on others to tell us what to do?”

Uber just paid a $20 million dollar fine for deceptively advertising driver’s wages so that they could get more drivers in to exactly this kind of situation. And for them, that’s just the price of doing business - a rounding error in their total valuation. For the people that were entrapped by Uber’s scheme, it was a…

Oh so true. I’ve seen both rich and poor fuck themselves good.

No, it sums up the last 35 years beginning with the deregulation insanity of the 1980s. Obama actually improved things if only slightly. Or have you forgotten the 2 recessions of Bush Jr and the Great Recession? The Savings and Loan recession of Bush Sr? Reagan’s voodoo economics?

Anyone who doesn’t have the skills or education to break out of working at McDonald’s, but has a family to provide for... what do you suggest they do?

I hate Uber. And Lyft. And whatever the next “ride sharing” bullshit company to come along is.

In case you folks haven’t been keeping up, there are not enough jobs (and certainly not enough good paying jobs) in this country for everyone no matter what your qualifications are and sometimes it’s your turn to eat the shit sandwich whether you like it or not.

I agree. Uber is way too cheap and convenient to be legal.

Except for the “extra mileage” charges that will inevitably happen when the lease runs out will eat up any savings to be had by the vehicle being under warranty.

I can’t imagine the money earned uber’ing even offsets the cost of wear and tear on a vehicle.

Possibly, but (not totally familiar with the region), I would suspect 40 miles from Chicago into Indiana would be suburbia at most. As the guy is in his 50's, and it sounds like he has a family, it may not be practical to try and uproot his entire family (especially if his spouse has a job). Even then, the income from…

I would have had some sympathy for Uber if it didn’t treat its employees—sorry, “freelance independent contractors”—like crap. Not providing sufficient insurance. Forcing drivers to lie on their insurance policies.

It was hard to tell from the story how much oversaturation there is (I suspect you’ve got a point, though). But the whole part of sleeping in the car goes to the commute length to get into the major metro area from an area where they can afford to live.

It is a ride sharing service in the sense that Uber did not wish to follow regulations and decided to create a gypsy cab service. Regulations are super easy to deal with when you just ignore them outright.

Kinda. It’s also an issue of Uber not paying enough for people to earn a decent wage except in major cities, where the cost of living is so high they can’t afford to live. It’s also an issue of a pretty expensive lease deal that Uber profits from as well, so not only are they taking a cut of his earnings, but of his…