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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome back, OP! We missed you. 
I was wondering, why do ride fees keep getting higher and why are both riders and drivers hit by the same fees, effectively allowing Uber to double dip without consequence? [/quote]
Simply put, because it’s an easy way for them to make money.  Scrape a little here, skim a little there, and then pretty soon you’re taking about real money.  Uber’s a public company now and they have to (eventually) turn a profit if they plan on existing in the future.  Meanwhile, [b]the average driver gets worse, car quality declines, and riders pay more for less[/b].  At the same time, capable drivers who know what they’re doing  actively root for uber & lyft to bankrupt and go out of business.[/quote]

I knew it! I thought I was going crazy. Cars are disgusting now.

So where does that leave the good drivers? Are they still on Uber/Lyft or are they moving to other platforms like Via (though Via is a mess, IME)? Or are they back to being private drivers through their own companies?[/quote]

Via is dead.  Only drivers banned/fired from uber & lyft willingly drive for Via.  The majority of good drivers left are driving a dozen or so hours every week during the highest demand times, making their easy $4-500, and then going to their 9-5 day job or other hustle to make real DC money.  Before uber came along, every good driver was formerly bartending, waiting tables, working retail, or a hotel front desk, i.e. semi-flexible customer service jobs (along with a tiny percentage that were formerly “good” taxicab drivers).  The decent drivers putting in those full-time 50-70 hour workweeks are just scraping by to get from one week to the next, because the more you drive uber in a week the less you make per hour.  Uber wants only full-time drivers so that the supply is always there (an army of “ants”), but it’s only profitable to cherry-pick the most profitable hours part-time.

Private for-hire car services have been decimated and almost all of the survivors lease out their Cadillacs and Town Cars to be used on uberBLACK.[/quote]

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