"These luxuries are not new. I took advantage of them long before Uber became a verb, before the world saw the first iPhone in 2007, even before the first subma

"These luxuries are not new. I took advantage of them long before Uber became a verb, before the world saw the first iPhone in 2007, even before the first submarine fibre-optic cable landed on our shores in 1997. In my hometown of Mumbai, we have had many of these conveniences for at least as long as we have had landlines—and some even earlier than that." Okay, putting "Uber" in your headline does not make your article worth reading. This article correctly states that in poor countries, there are abundant poor people willing to work very hard for very little money. Live-in maids are quite common in India. Laborers are quite cheap in Latin America. It is not good that so many people are so desperate for work. THAT SAID. This concept is tangentially related to Uber -- in that the "flex economy" screws over workers -- but the idea of an on-demand taxi service has nothing to do with exploitation. Municipal taxis screw over their drivers far more than Uber ever has. If anything Uber/Lyft/etc. empower the driver to take a great cut of the pay for his valuable services, and to shop around between employers for the best deal. Also, please submit links with actual content beyond the word "Uber" and the idea that "exploitation is bad." This article doesn't even attempt to link the two ideas.