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by prawn 3582 days ago
They often guarantee drivers a minimum hourly rate to ensure there is a pool of available drivers for their users. If they don't do this, users will get frustrated at times and give up on the service.

They're essentially loss-leading until a few things happen:

  - fuel prices drop away
  - self-driving cars are available
  - their competitors die out