[savant_penguin]

An Uber driver in his way to being exploited:

Wake up, decide it's a good day to be exploited.

Kiss your wife goodbye as you enter your car "bye honey! On my way to being exploited by Uber!"

Drive away and open your exploitation app. Accept a ride, go to the person: "who's the person that's going to participate in my exploitation together with Uber today? Oh, there he is!". Drive him to the place he needs to be, drive away.

"Ok, do I want to be exploited some more today?"

Decide to be exploited on a few more rides and return home.

Now being serious, if you're an Uber driver and let's say that in the short term that's your best option, why would it be better for him to have this option striped from him? Why do you think anyone else should make that call except him?

[sgarland]

In your strawman, the only options available for regulators is to do nothing and allow exploitation, or remove one exploitative industry and force the exploited further into poverty.

There are multiple avenues available, the least of which is to pass sweeping legislation to force corporations into compliance with basic human decency standards.