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While this is a nice view on the experience of an Uber driver, its from the lens of very much of someone is "make-for-great-cultural-learning" and not someone w
by fuzzywalrus 11y ago
While this is a nice view on the experience of an Uber driver, its from the lens of very much of someone is "make-for-great-cultural-learning" and not someone who's forced into the share economy due to lack of opportunity elsewhere.
- notahacker 11y agoAbsolutely. This is a bit like a university professor feeling "richer for the experience" of "working in fast food" after deciding it'll be an interesting sociological experiment to volunteer at a soup kitchen. Interesting to try, perhaps, but a very different experience from the people actually dependent on similar service jobs for a living. I suspect he'd have learned more about the "sharing economy" by asking to people actually driving for a living about how they decide between surge pricing fares and desperate need to sleep, but at least it's moved him to share his hard-earned insight that life can be difficult for people in America that don't drive... I'm more intrigued by what (if anything) happens to the Uber drivers that venture to pick up rides where apparently taxis dare not.
- zem 11y agobut the focus of the article wasn't really on the experience of an uber driver, it was on the demographics of uber users. that was a pretty valuable insight he got into how "sharing economy" taxis are filling in the gaps in the public transport infrastructure.