But Uber isn't forcing their workers at gunpoint, and it wasn't them that created the situation where the workers have no other alternatives.
If people are forced to get a badly paid job at Uber because the alternative is worse, and you remove Uber, guess what happens to the people you're trying to help?
If we want to help the people using Uber, we need to give them access to a better alternative so that they can leave voluntarily - be it giving them land or whatever. I don't claim I have a good solution, but we shouldn't fall into the Politician's Fallacy¹.
¹ "We must do something, this is something, we must do this"
I'm not talking about removing Uber. I'm not, and I don't get the idea DigitalSea is, in a position to "remove Uber". I'm not talking about any overarching ideology or abstract reasoning. I'm not "trying to help" people, either. I mean, it is what it is, right? What I take issue with is the reasoning that you and I almost have a moral imperative to go with the cheapest option, even though we are intelligent and well-informed, and can see that it's just not working out.
I'm talking about individual choice.
I also don't agree with your language, by the way. Uber's drivers are not using Uber; Uber are using them.
If you know that the alternative costs twice as much, and you doubt that the driver offering a ride for cheap can actually support his family, you have a choice.
If you are worried someone else might take a chunk of the expensive ride, or if you prefer the cheap ride anyway, you could always tip. US is the land of tipping, right? But then again, that might feel weird since the payment is centralized... Funny, that.
If people are forced to get a badly paid job at Uber because the alternative is worse, and you remove Uber, guess what happens to the people you're trying to help?
If we want to help the people using Uber, we need to give them access to a better alternative so that they can leave voluntarily - be it giving them land or whatever. I don't claim I have a good solution, but we shouldn't fall into the Politician's Fallacy¹.
¹ "We must do something, this is something, we must do this"