[ceejayoz]

Or Uber is offering the illusion of income and hoping they're desperate enough not to do the math on vehicle depreciation.

[flyingfences]

Income, not profit.

[ceejayoz]

How does income with no profit benefit the drivers?

[njarboe]

It can be a useful way to extract some value from your car without selling it. Say you are between jobs and have a car you bought new. You would like to keep the car, as you know its history, so you drive Uber to "sell" a part of the car until you get a new job.

[ceejayoz]

You're describing, in essence, a predatory payday loan.

[njarboe]

Not really. More like a way to sell a fraction of your vehicle's value while working for less than minimum wage in some cases. Not a great situation but, you are not paying high interest on a loan that you have to pay back.