🧵 (1/3) I set up @UberUK, was the first employee here back in 2012 and the thing that drivers loved was the absolute flexibility. They could go and work their private clients for months without a problem, then log onto Uber when it suited. https://twitter.com/JeremiasPrassl/status/1362700749709471748
(2/3) But, for those of you that remember, back in those days, Uber was a LUXURY car service. @travisk's whole plan was an S-Class for the price of a black cab. And those S-Class drivers have lots of private clients (and boy did they love telling us)
(3/3)The problem is when you add UberX, lower end drivers who don't have their own private clients and rely solely on Uber for employment. Also, we seem to have little competition in the market so Uber couldn't argue that drivers have lots of options.
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