Like Lyft, Uber practices #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, #VeenaDubal's term describing the illegal practice of offering workers different payouts for the same work. Uber's algorithm seeks out "pickers" who are choosy about which rides they take, and converts them to "ants" (who take every ride offered) by paying them more for the same job, until they drop all their other gigs, whereupon the algorithm cuts their pay back to the rates paid to ants:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

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This phenomenon - and proposed policy and labor solutions to it - is expertly analyzed in "On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination," a superb paper by UC Law San Franciscos #VeenaDubal:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4331080

Dubal uses empirical data and enthnographic accounts from Uber drivers and other gig workers to explain how endless, self-directed twiddling allows gig companies pay workers less and pay themselves more.

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The Tyee: Business Group Says Gig Workers Shouldn’t Get Employee Rights (in News) https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/24/Business-Groups-Gig-Workers-Employee-Rights/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #GreaterVictoriaChamberofCommerce #GreaterVancouverBoardofTrade #BerkeleyResearchGroup #CEOBridgitteAnderson #SussanneSkidmore #BeaconEconomics #employeestatus #KuljeetSingh #JimStanford #ArvinSingh #gigeconomy #gigworkers #VeenaDubal