In my experience this kind of argument is usually given by people who don’t understand what does it mean to be poor. Poverty incapacitates the rational mind; economic reason is replaced by survival instinct. There was a paper not that long ago that said that people are only rational when they’re concentrating on the decision at hand. If you live paycheck to paycheck and have to make decisions like food or medicine daily, your mental reserves are depleted.

Whether Uber drivers are this poor is an open question; I’d wager some are.