It is their decision to take advantage of it. Moreover, most of these companies did disseminated and promoted half-truths and falsehood about how much people will earn and what costs are offloaded. When you knowingly manipulate people or lie to them, you have no business to complain when someone else comes in and talks openly about you not being truthful.

People criticising and blaming companies eager for taking advantage of either naive or uninformed people is how the economic system becomes less vulnerable and how people learn what to be careful off. Openly criticizing these companies is how next workers become informed about traps like this.

Interestingly, in India, Uber paid drivers upwards of $1700, in in the initial 1-2 years, as incentives to get them onto the platform. Drivers took loans and mortgages to buy cars which they couldn't pay after the incentives were taken off.

Lot of drivers went into debts and sold away their cars. The market has probably more stabilized now.

But inspite of all the talk of tech, we are still looking at these platforms taking 25%-30%.

It's each individual's own responsibility to consider all information before deciding to partake in any activity. failure to do so is their own fault.

Neither can governments that promotes the uber-economy then. Or, god forbids, they are accomplices ?! /s