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increase their (artificially supressed) prices
Excuse my ignorance, could you explain what you mean by this?
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This kind of thing
https://www.fastcompany.com/4026256/investors-are-paying-2-billion-per-year-to-subsidize-your-uber-ride(There will doubtless be lots more articles that dig deeper into the numbers e.g. this one)
boristrump
Yes, I don't doubt that many feel like that. Having a job with regular income, and having some degree of choice over your hours, is likely to be viewed positively.
But drivers could probably do better. What do you think they would say if you were to offer them a contract, some benefits (e.g. annual leave and sick pay), and also have employer NI (and tax) payments made on their behalf, etc.
Uber isn't offering them that. For that to happen Uber would need to acknowledge their responsibilities as employers, and increase their (artificially supressed) prices to cover the additional costs.
Drivers should be able to choose to a job with those kinds of benefits, but by the time Uber has forced most of the competition out of business, those types of roles probably won't exist anymore.
Regulations (and the like) get a bad press, and while some are frustrating, and they usually result in extra costs for businesses, they are nonetheless often aimed at protecting the most vulnerable in society. That's probably why the Tories are rubbing their hands with glee at the potential of the post-Brexit 'bonfire of regulations'!