"The net result is a huge population of individuals who effectively work for Uber despite the fact that they have no formal employment status. And their compensation is completely determined by Uber, without regard to any “employee” rights or other considerations. Call it employees without benefits."
Yeah, but those employees set their own working hours and how much they work. In that sense it's employment with total benefits.
"Individuals bear all the fixed costs (car repairs, insurance, safety risks) and most of the overhead costs (training, equipment)."
Yeah, but those individuals are choosing to share what they have anyway, so they'd have those costs in any case. Otherwise it would be a sharing economy at all. I don't see a revolt happening unless large numbers of people start relying on these systems as their sole source of employment.
At the moment (or such is my understanding) it's just a way of earning extra pocket money.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150325-revolt-in-the-sharing-economy
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