> Uber's main success was to take something that already existed (taxi services) but then found a way to work around local labour laws on a technicality.

> Because Uber drivers are all self-employed, they're not unionised or protected in any way. Thus, Uber pays its drivers a pittance, and is able to undercut and undermine existing taxi services who are forced by unions and law to pay drivers a living wage.

What country are you in? In the USA, taxi drivers are also self employed, not unionized, and paid a pittance.