Uber is just as capitalist as any other company which requires its workers to buy their own tools (which is rather a lot of them). The trick is that those tools

Uber is just as capitalist as any other company which requires its workers to buy their own tools (which is rather a lot of them). The trick is that those tools don't actually allow you to perform the work in and of themselves - you still need Uber for a steady source of passengers and for regulatory protection, and the only way you'll get that is wage labour.