Uber is running shit like this because they're trying to convince people they're a side independent contracting company and not your actual employer and certainly have never been successfully sued over it in other countries because the only way to make actual cash off it is to make it your full time employ
How so? That's only true if regulations increase your costs to the point where you'd lose money from using the app, or if there was some subscription fee.
Uber is
incentivized carpooling. If EVERYONE who has a car registered, everyone would have the opportunity to make a bit of money moving people where they themselves are going; every day you're going to work you could pick someone up, and when you come back home. That's 20 days a month, twice a day. At its most basic level, Uber is good for the environment like any other form of carpooling, with the added benefit of being paid to incite people to carpool.
It's precisely the fact that people assume that just because Uber helps you make some money, it should allow you to make a living form it, that people claim it's horrible. It has nothing to do with Uber, and everything to do with living in a society where wealth inequalities are immense, where people lack a safety net and risk going bankrupt for missing one paycheck or from breaking a leg. The reason taxi drivers are freaking out is not because Uber is evil, it's because they will lose their jobs and end up in the street, with little chances of finding another job or having a living wage to make up for the lack of one. If on the other end we did live in an equal opportunity society with safety nets, they wouldn't freak out, they would slowly move away from the taxi industry into new ones, without seeing their standard of living falling catastrophically (and not vote for some populist out of desperation).
Uber is great. The fact that people feel like they have to do multiple jobs to keep their heads above the water is a political problem, nothing else. And now that people don't understand that, they point their fingers at the technology, and next thing you know the government puts a stupid tax or other regulations in place that defeats the whole beneficial aspect of it to begin with.
