[zxcmx]

Maybe the gig economy is just "too early". Like maybe the whole industry is actually a giant bet on income inequality getting worse :(

That seems incredibly grim, and I hope most investors are just waiting to see if anyone can pull a rabbit out of a hat somewhere (bootstrapping economies of scale, automation, etc).

[blaser-waffle]

The whole industry was a bet on automation -- self driving cars -- and broke-ass uber drivers are just a way to grab market share until that happens. Uber is explicitly betting on self-driving cars, and it's why they're okay hemorrhaging money in the short-to-middle term.