All of these pieces carefully avoid talking about the fact that Uber claims to have been profitable in several US cities in 2016. In places where they have had time to figure our their model, pricing and supply/demand, they appear to be capable of becoming profitable. While most people can understand pricing and supply/demand being different between cities, Uber's model actually changes in some cities as well. In some parts of the world they don't charge using credit cards because no consumers use them, in other parts their drivers don't use cars because it's impractical.

I'm all for calling out companies for exhibiting abhorrent behavior toward contractors and employees. That has value and can elicit change.

Doom & gloom pieces on the other hand are a dime a dozen. This one specifically I find lacking. Uber isn't losing mountains of cash because it's unsustainable. It's losing mountains of cash because it can afford to and wants to in order to continue it's absolutely astonishing growth rate. They may be bad people. You may not want to work for them. I grant those premises. I got an offer and turned it down. That said, I simply can not understand the desire to see them fall. The delta between what existed before and what they've built is vast. I'd happily pay 2x my current rate and the claim that I would _have_ to pay 5x to cover their costs is laughable.