The bias in many of the comments here is towards social darwinism and personal responsibility. But before we blame the drivers for taking out loans on the 'foo

The bias in many of the comments here is towards social darwinism and personal responsibility. But before we blame the drivers for taking out loans on the 'foolish' assumption that their pay would remain constant, remember that Uber benefited from their naivete with having extra drivers on the road. This breed and cull strategy is par for the course in the business world, but you can't say it's 'not immoral', it's just that the business world so rarely has any incentive to be moral. One incentive is that people hold them to account when they do something crappy like this.