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I assume you are located in a country with poor to no worker protection laws or you would not be asking such a question. In most European countries workers hav
by sschueller 4y ago
I assume you are located in a country with poor to no worker protection laws or you would not be asking such a question.
In most European countries workers have protections which include paid sick leave, worker comp, social security payments, pension payments, maternity leave, etc. etc. All these are required by law to be provided partially or fully by the employers.
Uber does not pay any of those. They expect you to be self-employed and pay for all these things yourself yet dictate the price which makes it impossible to live. If you were truly self-employed you would not take the project at that price.
- lolinder 4y agoThis doesn't answer the question of why people choose to work at Uber if there are jobs available that provide all of these things. People in Europe have the opportunity to work in a job that covers for all of these benefits. Driving for Uber isn't mandatory. Is the implication that the adults working for Uber just aren't smart enough to know they're being exploited?
- kyleee 4y agoThere is no doubt some paternalism at play here, without making a value judgement
- Dylan16807 4y agoThe bigger argument is that they don't have the power to avoid being exploited. You could compare too-low wages in many situations to a prisoner's dilemma or tragedy of the commons. Being smart can't save you; you need solidarity/regulation.