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No, it is specifically about Uber's practices.

The point of the article is that Uber enticed people into a new way of earning a living with higher pay rates, kept these up long enough to convince the workers to go into debt to purchase a vehicle, then slashed the pay rates so much (~58%) that they cannot even afford to keep paying for the vehicle.

This is not mere anti-Uber clickbait; it is a record of what Uber did.

While it is probably within the law, it is certainly unethical exploitation of a very unequal power relationship.

There is a reason behind the frequency of "negative sounding" headlines about Uber -- it is because they build a company on fundamentally unethical practices predicated on screwing the other guy first, whether it is the cities, the govt, the drivers, or their own employees -- whatever they can get away with.

Perhaps that is OK, with you, but it is not the way to build a sustainable business or society.