People extol all kinds of principles till those principles come to bite them (I like immigration, but I don't like H1Bs, etc.). So, everyone's whipping boy/girl is technology today. Of course they are not going to talk negative things about the ills of higher ed. How undergraduates are used as free labor, or the excessive hazing, etc.

I'm not a particular fan of Uber the tech company, but at the same time, a fair comparison would be to see how Uber compares to working for a regular taxi company. Just as it would be fair to compare Uber the tech co vs. Twitter or Amazon the tech company --not the warehouse operations. amazon's warehouse operations should be compared against other warehouse operations, and if they come up short, castigate them.

But hey, people like reading catchy titles and like consuming things which reinforce their biases.