If Uber can't make enough money to have and pay employees like all the other taxi companies have been able to for decades, they have failed as a company and need to move aside. Simple economics.

Besides I doubt Uber is struggling financially, it's one of the largest companies in the world and did so by paying their drivers only a fraction of what they'd earn as regular taxi drivers. Mind you the cost for customers was similarly lower, but apparently, too low.

Uber is one of those companies that lives off of investment money, using that to be able to dive under the price of their competition and putting them out of business. I'll shed no tears for them.