[eplanit]

The whole appeal for the drivers was "employment-like" opportunities with more freedom for themselves. This takes that away. If they wanted regular jobs they would have sought that.

[gilrain]

You are badly out of touch. People take the jobs they have to take to survive. The choice you imagine does not exist for most of humanity.

[eplanit]

You make it sound like the job situation in the Netherlands is desperate. From what I can tell by searching, unemployment is only about 3%. Where's the desperation in that?

Uber drivers I've talked to didn't join because they were desperate -- they joined to have more freedom and control.

[kazen44]

ah yes. and the years 2009- 2015 where the same?

no they where far worse. its unemployment numbers are low now. but it hasn't always been the case.