Originally Posted by tandempower

No one wants to eliminate people. We just want to pay less, which requires cutting costs. Do you want to pay a dispatcher to tell you were to drive in your own car? If so, why would you want to when you are ride-sharing?


Driver-ride-sharing would avoid the whole issue of client-servant in getting a ride. Ride-sharing is already an attempt to do that by allowing people who drive their own vehicles to share rides for compensation. Letting the driver continue to share the vehicle after getting out at his or her destination would further avoid the issue.

But then you could argue that the vehicle owner is getting exploited by not getting paid enough by the auto-makers to operate a car-rental service.

Do you think car rental franchise owners are getting exploited because they're not salaried employees within the automaker corporations of the cars they rent out? Is it a problem that they are independent contractors?