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The Dark Secret Behind Uber that No One Talks About
How an entire class of elites we know and love is profiting off of Uber drivers’ starvation wages
If you’ve been on Twitter, you know Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, amongst other progressive politicians, have a long history of sparring with Uber for not providing adequate benefits and wages. Yet, of course, all these politicians are also guilty of using the services themselves (but it’s tough to blame them considering how accessible and well-functioning the company is).
Sanders has taken the time to call out the CEO, but can the blame only be cast on one person? No one single person is in charge of all company decisions. Shouldn’t some of the blame be focused on the investors, the board members, and any other high-level executives? After all, it took millions of dollars from several individual investors to get it off the ground.
Now the company is valued over $100 billion, and it has a stranglehold on the taxicab business. The gig economy has led to millions of Americans to juggle two or three parttime jobs, without proper workplace benefits, like healthcare, paid time off, maternity leave, etc. Uber owes much of its success to its ability to keep driving costs to very low levels by flooding the market with parttime workers, which has increased competition significantly…
