[lurquer]

Words don’t redefine themselves.

Describing low-paying jobs as “slavery” is a metaphor. Saying “certain aspects of X are like Y” does not mean Y ‘is’ X.

But, of course, that is often why rhetoricians use metaphors and similes… to dupe and confuse people into a false equivalence.

There are slaves in this world… diluting the meaning of the word to include Uber drivers does not help them.

[belter]

That is not the argument. The argument is that Uber business model is more cost-effective than Slavery. (And without trying to sound insensitive here)...the "slave owner" still bears the costs of his "slaves".

[yywwbbn]

But it’s still not profitable, unlike slavery which was extremely profitable. So how can it be more effective?

[belter]

"Slave owners" did not have high AWS bills, Stock Based compensation, Sales and Marketing and so on...

"Uber Technologies Operating Expenses 2017-2021 | UBER"

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UBER/uber-technolo....

"Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021"

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...