>For all of the issues around Uber, they disrupted a market that desperately needed disrupting. The black cabs in London are a great example: expensive, uncomfortable, often draughty and cold, unpredictable, cash only, and often unfriendly drivers.

So now you have a bunch of "gig-workers" scraping by, often mis-accounting for the deprectiation of using their own vehicle, while often not being properly insured to carry passengers commercially. Meanwhile, Uber corporate is a money burning enterprise.

However, for wealthy urbanites, they can now get to where they are going cheaply and conveniently, so the trade off is "good".

I remain confident that if Uber (and its drivers) had to charge "true costs" this entire story changes.