Every Uber driver I’ve had in US and Canada are happy with driving for Uber. One guy I had the other day drives under as his second job and He says it pays his rent, his car payment and gas and his primary job goes straight to savings. The idea that these Uber drivers are slaves is a lie.
“Uber drivers are slaves is a lie” is a bit oversimplification, but the children in mines analogy doesn’t make sense. The idea is to get rid of child labour, not labour in general. It’s not like we don’t have adults working in mines. I know in Northern Ontario there are people who enjoy the job since it pays fairly well. I understand it’s physically excruciating, but consenting adults sign up for it.
In Uber’s case, consenting adults sign up for the terms in employee unfriendly environments (e.g. US). From what I’ve heard from my drivers, it’s either that or some other minimum wage job they don’t wanna do.
Every Uber driver I’ve had in US and Canada are happy with driving for Uber. One guy I had the other day drives under as his second job and He says it pays his rent, his car payment and gas and his primary job goes straight to savings.
I wrote a comment using similar logic. Every child I've met working in mines was happy to be able to provide money for their family.
The logic is bad. It's poor reasoning to say, "Every person I've met doing X is happy. Therefore letting people do X is a good thing." I was pointing that out.
