If Uber cannot afford to treat their workers with basic human decency, they should not be in business at all.
Uber’s business has involved sloughing off all the risk onto their drivers, while attempting to desperately increase their business by flouting the laws everywhere in the world.
They haven’t made money — Amazon hasn’t made money — these companies are designed to never make money because they always use all their spare money to expand.
It’s funny — I knew professional drivers, drivers car services, people who’d worked in the business for years. They had perfectly middle-class existences, health care, that sort of thing— Uber just destroyed them one and all, replaced them by people who aren’t even making minimum wage when you take car maintenance and gas into account.
Your argument is this: “Uber could not exist without constantly grinding its employees, which means that they have to always grind their employees in future.” It’s morally appalling.