"The scooter technician gig didn’t exist a little more than a year ago. It’s an example of how shifts in business models, social norms and consumer habits spurred by startups can spawn new kinds of work, defying predictions that new technologies will destroy more jobs than they create."

Ya... people riding scooters once drove expensive cars fixed by mechanics earning far more than 22$/hour. Manpower is the only real cost in any organization. So any new tech or business model that is cheaper than an old system (ie scooters instead of taxis) almost certainly means someone somewhere is earning less money than under the old scheme.