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I'd like to see how you fare when trying to negotiate anything with Uber as a driver. They set their conditions to a level that is most beneficial to them, and

I'd like to see how you fare when trying to negotiate anything with Uber as a driver. They set their conditions to a level that is most beneficial to them, and you have zero ability to negotiate with them. As long as there are enough desperate people to accept their conditions, they have no motivation to change anything. Why would they? So you go and organize with other drivers and then you can go to Uber and say: if you don't accept our conditions, you'll get no drivers full stop. Suddenly the negotiations are among equals. You seem strongly anchored to your freedom, but the reality is that vs a huge corporation, you have none to begin with. Unless you are independently wealthy, you don't even have the freedom to stop participating in the labor pool.

CryptoPunk 5y ago
You are able to negotiate with Uber, because they do not have an unlimited pool of labor to draw from. In labor markets with little to no regulations, wages can rapidly grow, because employers complete for workers, and that means they have to offer more pay when general productivity rises. Now what if productivity doesn't rise. Do we want to force companies to reduce shareholder profits in order to pay workers more than what the unrestricted actions of people in the market would result in them being paid? No we don't, and if you doubt me, I can link to you the economic explanations for why that is, which includes an explanation of the role that the profit earned by investors plays in increasing productivity and wages.