"Too many drivers cherry-pick lucrative rides and decline other requests, making the service unreliable, the San Francisco company said on Monday. Uber no longer has to worry about proving that drivers are independent contractors, because Prop 22 -- the November ballot measure that Uber and fellow gig companies spent $220 million to pass -- enshrines their non-employee status."

Isn't that the point of being an INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. You can refuse jobs. Sorry Uber, you're a fucking taxi service. These

This will lead to a court case saying Prop 22 does not apply to Uber. Uber is trying to be too clever and it will bite them big time

I think of Uber and Lyft more as NGOs engaged in spreading Math literacy than as ride sharing companies. The only people who sign up are those bad at math. After 6 months driving for Uber they become good at Math and figure out that with insurance, depreciation and unpaid waiting time they are actually not making even minimum wage , they move on. This increases Math literacy in the population.

You have just assumed away the correct answer as inconvenient to your point. If a person needs work badly enough to take a shit job, there is probably a reason - lack of education, lack of experience, outsized family obligations, etc. That person is likely already working one or more of those low wage jobs and not earning enough to live on, and between things like child care or just the schedules of those other jobs, Uber is all that remains that fits. So yes, many people are working for Uber due to a lack