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Well good and evil is a pretty binary description. You will only have a market if seller (the driver) and buyer (the service operator) are meeting. If the driver do not want to operate under those conditions there is no "invisible hand" forcing them to do so. Of course in lack of alternatives it is a small but easily accessible form of immediate income.

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The alternative is to get educated and get thinking about starting a real business instead of this part time addictive pitty of income... it's like saying to the addict it is his fault he is spending all his money on drugs...

Is the addict not even partly at fault for spending all his money on drugs??!

Let's not get started with the moralistic stance will we? Poverty is most often due to - especially in societies with precious little social safety nets - accidents of life, hereditarity. Very few fall deservedly, most are thrown or kept down

Not everyone has the skills, patience, savings to get required education. There is a reason why McJobs exist. This is not an addition but rather the need for immediate cashflow due to economic situations.

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