Forced how? I have friends that eat because of Uber. What leverage do they have against Uber?

This is a tragedy of the commons problem: Uber is footing an addiction to cheap transport nobody knows how to satiate.

>Uber is footing an addiction to cheap transport nobody knows how to satiate.

Just ride a bike. Not an option in the burbs, for sure, but taking an uber is not an efficiency gain the way public transit or bicycles are.

IMHO low density communities will die. They cannot be saved.

Public transit isn't an option in the country. Neither is biking: you can't bike your father to the er when his hip breaks. Uber is, and it's displacing sustainable transit. What happens when they try to justify it? They're basing their world view on efficient economies, but they're getting there with a subsidized economy. The way this ends is either with a) starving drivers or b) unaffordable transport for those below average income.

>The way this ends is either with a) starving drivers or b) unaffordable transport for those below average income.

It ends with Uber running out of money. Higher interest rates would end Uber very quickly, unless it has some very wealthy patróns that aren't actually interested in making money.

Bikes aren't an option in a lot of cities, either. I live ~1.5mi from my office in Atlanta, but I'm nowhere near crazy enough to ride a bike down Piedmont Rd.

1.5mi is walkable, though. (My commute is 3 miles a day, every day, on foot. Bay Area.)