I'm more uncomfortable with how willing people are to sound insightful for caring about workers, and then end the thought there, without ever asking if they were treated any better as taxi drivers. (Usually no -- at least the in the US, they used the "independent contractor" trick and it was much harder to come on and off shifts.)
The problem with your response is it relies on several bad faith assumptions without evidence.
Your inference that Uber is net neutral to net positive for workers rights is a statement I’ve never heard a taxi driver express or seen seriously or convincingly made in an online discussion.
I’d like to hear more evidence. until then it seems like a comforting thought for a libertarian rather than a sober description of reality.
I didn’t make such assumptions, it was a comment about evidentiary standards, calling out people like you who place an unequal burden on the two positions, and didn’t even realize something could be wrong in the status quo it was being compared to. You validate that charge when you immediately shift the burden (again) to whether I personally can make the case in that direction.
