How much does running Uber cost?
Sometimes, Uber takes more than 50% of the driver's fare. Uber definitely is flexible with their pricing to be able to get the customers that are frugal, which beats a standard wage model for drivers. And this feeds to popularity, ubiquity, and market dominance. Don't get me wrong, I think that aspect can be appreciated. It explains why they are partly winning (idk the story for Lyft, grubhub). I jump straight to the reason that Uber is still winning because I think they take too much of drivers' pay. If they are unfairly addressing the driver, why are they still winning? Where does Uber's overhead go? Does it take that much to run an online app?? How does wikipedia survive if running Uber is this expensive? Social campaigns are cheap if done right. From my understanding, running a huge web app also doesn't cost that much. Do taxi drivers just need some help from the expensive software engineers? Or do drivers need to be taught how to stand up for themselves? I...