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Uber isnt freedom. If they let you set your price, and let customers easily rebook with you, then you would have freedom. Uber want perfectly controlled interch

• strictnein 7y ago
  Car services have worked like that for decades. My uncle has had his same driver for something like 40 years. The driver is not an employee, he is a contractor.
  • kube-system 7y ago
    That might be true, but in a nutshell, the IRS classifies employees based upon how much control the business has upon the worker. It is a very grey area, but every point of control is an argument for being W2. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/employee-or-independent-contractor-know-the-rules https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/employee-or-independent-contrac... Your uncle may also have been miscategorized. Uber isn't the first company to play fast and loose with worker classification. It wasn't uncommon before the modern 'gig economy' either: https://hbr.org/2017/07/lots-of-employees-get-misclassified-as-contractors-heres-why-it-matters https://hbr.org/2017/07/lots-of-employees-get-misclassified-...