Originally Posted by
Internaut
It is definitely bad if there’s no competition. It’s also bad if the drivers are priced into poverty, which is what can happen if you allow an absolutely free and unregulated market. I’ve long thought the antidote to Uber’s wrongdoings would be for drivers to form their own co-operatives. There are other software solutions out there (albeit not as slick in terms of the end to end experience).
Pricing labour into poverty is what the "sharing economy" is all about, but if the consumer wins...