The Uber (etc) drivers could be paying themselves instead of the owners investors if someone were just to write an open source gig manager and apply everywhere.
Because there's way more to Uber than an app.<p>There's so many facets I don't know where to start<p>- Background Checks<p>- Payment Infrastructure<p>- Insurance, and not some off-the-shelf insurance, complicated messy layers insurance<p>- UX<p>- Expensive marketing and subsidies (which is what creates trust in brand so we all feel comfortable hopping into cars with strangers)<p>- Local laws (even if they break a lot of them, they do still follow some)<p>There's an open source Uber-like platform: <a href="https://libretaxi.org/" rel="nofollow">https://libretaxi.org/</a><p>But making an Uber app is easy, making an Uber platform is expensive.
> could be paying themselves instead of the owners investors<p>Uber isn’t “paying the owners [sic] investors,” it’s (still) consuming huge amounts of their capital. From <a href="https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2019/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Third-Quarter-2019/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...</a> :<p>“As such, we are improving our full year Adjusted EBITDA guidance by $250 million to a loss of $2.8-2.9 billion”