Uber, on one hand, is exploiting drivers naivety and funnel their money to the investors. If people calculated the amortization of their cars they would see how their real income is far below minimal wage -- there are many blog posts analyzing this.
On another hand by creating and valorizing "gig economy" it has become an excellent tool in furthering the rollback of everything organized labor have achieved in a hundred year plus.
Point was that Uber’s co-founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick named Ayn Rand as his favorite author. So I thought of him as an example for someone who has not “growing out of“ Rand’s “objectivism”.
I find it very fitting that is apparently has led him to the kind of one-sided success you are describing. And, if I remember correctly, his ousting from Uber started with him preaching the libertarian gospel to one of his company’s underpaid drivers.
It seems to me that is precisely what the other commentator was trying to say with “growing out of it“. Ayn Rands books are really good and revolutionary and one should read them, perhaps even multiple times. But one probably shouldn’t take them as the final answer to the questions of life.
On another hand by creating and valorizing "gig economy" it has become an excellent tool in furthering the rollback of everything organized labor have achieved in a hundred year plus.
Your point...?