Not so much. Capitalism is really about the pre-eminence of capital (it's right there in the name).
Treating the labor market as an undifferentiated commodity to be exploited is one way in which the needs of those who own capital (capitalists/rentiers) are placed above those who are part of that labor market. That's how we get QE, austerity, TTIP, bank bailouts, extra strong patents and a bunch of other gifts from government to billionaires.
This is part of what has caused the rise of the professional managerial classes.
>You can treat this as a failure of union outreach, that Uber drivers should unionize and demand relief. But it's not like they can't organize.
Unionizing is a constant uphill battle. Uber drivers' lack of success at it says no more about the merits of unionization than the failure of 95% of entrepreneurs does about entrepreneurship.
>No, most Uber drivers choose to keep driving, the arguments that they're being exploited seem a little thin when you realize that Uber drivers could be doing just about anything else to make more money if they were really truly being exploited.
The fact that they choose to do it says more about the other choices they have available than it does about Uber. What can they do? Go $150,000 in debt to get an education and still not be able to get a middle class job? Learn javascript and discover that the tech industry is exactly as cliquey as it says that it isn't? Source $1 million in capital from thin air and start their own business and take those 1 in 20 odds?
The major failure any economic model designed to "prove" that we're living in a fair society demonstrates is an underlying assumption that is completely, utterly and stupidly wrong. This is your presumption.
>Being poor in America isn't nearly as horrible as it used to be.
Try living on a minimum wage for three months and then start lecturing us about how easy it is. With dependents.
>People can choose to be poorer
You know that your ideas are half witted when they demand that you believe that people choose to be poorer.