People make plenty of economic decisions that aren't long term profitable. Go to any struggling downtown, and it will probably be chock full of predatory loan a

People make plenty of economic decisions that aren't long term profitable. Go to any struggling downtown, and it will probably be chock full of predatory loan and check cashing places, which are universally considered to be a horrible economic decision to use. I'm not necessarily saying that driving Uber is quite at that level, but the fact that people are driving for Uber isn't evidence that it's a profitable thing for them to do.