If a person is dying of thirst, they'll stick drink brackish water if it's all their offered. What is egregious about uber is that they themselves are tapping

If a person is dying of thirst, they'll stick drink brackish water if it's all their offered. What is egregious about uber is that they themselves are tapping into the clean water source, extracting the best part for themselves and then leaving only brackish water for all the uber drivers. If you believe the end goal of a society is to extract every last bit of value from its members, then yes, Uber is great. If you believe the end goal of society is to provide some sort of dignified life for its members, then I don't see how you can justify what Uber does. > How about this: let’s presume all of what you say is true. What if after all those costs are accounted for, it’s still profitable for many people to drive for Uber. There have many studies done about what someone can earn from Uber. Even without the externalities nobody is going to get rich from Uber. With the externalities, they are barely making a subsistence wage. Lastly, I would argue that even if working for Uber is a net negative, in the short term (even years) they can extract some value from an assets they already have (their vehicle and their time) against costs in the future. For someone who needs cash today, this is a acceptable tradeoff.