Because the people that are clueless about business can easily price their service below even minimum wage and companies use it exactly for that reason
You get paid per service of moving people around, but might not be knowledgable enough to calculate deprecation and other stuff correctly.
More than that, any problem with the car is also on you, not on company car, so you'd have to budget for that too.
It's a way for company to shift the risk entirely to the lowest paid worker, including every risk involved with car itself.
It's even worse in say food delivery when the couriers are bidding for who can ship it the cheapest. You're essentially getting bidded out in race for bottom if there is enough competition, again going around minimum wage.
> 3) those people that willingly took those jobs are being taken advantage of
> What is the principal that justifies 3? People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral? Even if that's the case, I'd like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would.
Because as society we decided letting capitalism exploit dumbasses willing to work for half-free is a bad thing. That's why we have minimum wages. That's why jobs like that should have unions. Because without body to represent them there always will be someone willing to do it for half free.
You get paid per service of moving people around, but might not be knowledgable enough to calculate deprecation and other stuff correctly.
More than that, any problem with the car is also on you, not on company car, so you'd have to budget for that too.
It's a way for company to shift the risk entirely to the lowest paid worker, including every risk involved with car itself.
It's even worse in say food delivery when the couriers are bidding for who can ship it the cheapest. You're essentially getting bidded out in race for bottom if there is enough competition, again going around minimum wage.
> 3) those people that willingly took those jobs are being taken advantage of
> What is the principal that justifies 3? People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral? Even if that's the case, I'd like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would.
Because as society we decided letting capitalism exploit dumbasses willing to work for half-free is a bad thing. That's why we have minimum wages. That's why jobs like that should have unions. Because without body to represent them there always will be someone willing to do it for half free.