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>I don't think it is sensible to justify exploitation with "but the public benefits from it' and 'without it the business might go under'.

It's absurd to compare providing a service that hooks drivers up with clients to child labour.



Driving for a living is hard on a person. Truck drivers have bad health and quite high divorce/problematic relationship rates. Taxi driving is relatively dangerous. Driving is the most dangerous activity we commonly perform today and the risk corresponds to miles driven.


driving is one of the most dangerous things you can do nowadays. most Uber drivers have to support themselves and possibly others. Many drivers can’t afford private healthcare so in the case of an accident it would really suck for them and their family.

Maybe they’re not losing their fingers in factory machines like child laborers are but I think they deserve employer provided healthcare at the very least.




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