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Uber is a scummy company with a history of scandals. Here’s a list from a few years ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-company-scandals-and-controversies-2017-11?op=1

Their whole business model is to operate a taxi service while claiming it isn’t a taxi service, to avoid following regulations for taxi services. In cities where they’ve been been forced to follow regulations, they’ve lost their licenses to operate multiple times. For example:

• Lost license to operate in London in 2017 and 2019: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50544283
• Can’t find a link at the moment, but they lost their license to operate in Việt Nam entirely for tax evasion and improper business registration

Uber under-pays drivers. With the rates they pay, driving for Uber is effectively a reverse mortage on your car. They prey on vulnerable people. Businesses that can’t pay a living wage shouldn’t exist. Remember FDR:

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.

(1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)

Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you – using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions — tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.

(1938, Fireside Chat, the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act)

I haven’t actively looked into GoGet’s dealings, but they don’t have the same history of well-known scandals that Uber has.

I’ve used GoGet & flexicar and had no major issues with either. GoGet is essential run/ owned by Hurtz.