Well, for those who did know yet, I am an Uber driver and so far I must say, I have an overall positive opinion of being an independently licensed taxi for everyone. It's a unique way of doing work.
To be honest, I was looking for work where I was living but that search always turned out cold no matter what happened. It was just that they sent emails that they wouldn't hire me or that I would wait to no avail. Then some of my family members suggested the idea of working for Uber. And Since I had nothing to lose, I might as well try it out. After car repairs and other things, I was driving for Uber.
Even though it's been a month I've been driving for Uber, I am overall pleased with now having work. But there are some issues I have with this situation. The more I see about Uber and Lyft style taxis, I have been hearing news of cities banning the personalized taxi cabs and even regulations on them trying to go to other states (apparently it's not ok for a California Uber to go drive into Nevada if a client wants to go to Vegas and vice versa). But do these regulators even know who they really hurt with enacting these regulations? They hurt people like me.
It seems they just don't want to understand what goes on in the regular onlooker for work. Since they know work is sparse right now, such an opportunity should be good. But instead of cheers, politicians and regulators don't use their brains and react in the most base of ways by saying no to whatever whims they want. And thus make it harder for people like me to make an income. The regulations not only affect us for lack of money gains but also for regular consumers who prefer such commodity services as such, they don't get the benefit of a more affordable taxi service. It makes everyone lose and that's truly an immoral thing to just bully someone out of a place just because they're doing it better than someone else who can too.
But the Uber and Lyft systems allow more accountability from people. People can review you for your virtues and failings with how you present your service and how accommodating you are to them. The standard is higher and made on a good platform but it's obvious to them, equal is fair when it is not.
Before I end this, I want to leave one final note. Just now I learned Uber is canceled in Denmark due to ridiculous demands and at least they had the sensibility to blame the laws for destroying them. And the only ones who pat themselves on their backs are the socialists and nationalists. Now Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were the socialist favorites. But who is the nationalist candidate that could also bring the power to tyrannically enforce anti-dog eat dog laws if possible? Chew on that for a little.
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