Uber seems like a new take on the same exploitative multi-level marketing as Tupperware parties, Amway, and Herbalife. They take advantage of the desperate and unemployed by re-classifying them as something other than employed to make a business model that wouldn't work otherwise.

Instead of buying $6000 of product from Uber, you are essentially leasing them your car and getting barely enough back in fares to pay the depreciation and operating expenses. Some even manage to get enough to pay themselves minimum wage. In the meantime Uber is advertising that their drivers are making close to six figures.