Sure, rules and regulations could changed, but we need to not only consider what is best for our own life but for others too.
Many rich people wouldn't suffer if Uber could just forcefully employ people at will, keeping them hostage, if Uber could arrange something like that. But that hurts the people who are being kept hostage. When we create/remove/modify regulations, both sides of the coin needs to be considered.
In this case, it's less about how good/bad Uber is for passengers and more about how Uber is exploiting their employees. Even if everyone loved Uber as a passenger, we can't allow them to exploit other human beings.
Do you order stuff on Amazon, ever? Any other big retail shop? Buying only fair-trade food if its not from your neighbor farmer? Dressed only in provably ethically sourced cotton?
And I presume you obviously don't use those pesky child-labor-by-Foxconn phones/other devices like Apple; heck it would be hard to find any electronic device using ie rare metals that were sourced by standards you seemingly want others to adhere to. So I presume you typed this on some wooden computer sending pigeon packets.
We can go much deeper. You will inevitably fail eventually the same standards you are expecting from others here, probably pretty quickly. Its just about which battle one decides to pick up and push hard enough. You picked Uber for some reason, others for around gazillion reasons stated in this thread do not consider them the most important topic given the overall benefits to whole society.
The first, glaring reason is because Uber refuses to treat them as employees, and instead force them to work as contractors/freelancers, even though they clearly are employees by any reasonable measure.
Most of the Uber drivers I've spoken to, don't like how Uber is treating them. But, I'm not gonna pretend I've spoken to all of them, and I haven't spoken to any of them in the US (mostly South America, Asia and Europe).
But since you apparently sit on a trove of data (as you're so sure of this) that I don't have access to, could you share a bit the results and your methodology?
Many rich people wouldn't suffer if Uber could just forcefully employ people at will, keeping them hostage, if Uber could arrange something like that. But that hurts the people who are being kept hostage. When we create/remove/modify regulations, both sides of the coin needs to be considered.
In this case, it's less about how good/bad Uber is for passengers and more about how Uber is exploiting their employees. Even if everyone loved Uber as a passenger, we can't allow them to exploit other human beings.