re: #51 HappyWarrior

The idea is very useful in principle. I’m in cities a lot. Sometimes a cab isn’t available and if you’ve been out drinking, Uber can prove more timely than a cab. They treat their employees awful but it’s sound in principle but terrible in practice.

Hence the need to regulate them as a livery company rather than a tech company.

If you do that (require them to treat their gig drivers as employees) their business model of exploiting their drivers collapses.

Sometimes an Uber isn’t available either.