
Unpack Uber’s disruptive model and the contractor status, revealing the dark side of wages, escalating commissions, and costs that erode income.
Examine how price cuts drive a ruthless race to the bottom, slashing driver pay and tips while demanding more rides, undercut competition, and no benefits.
Explains universal basic income, its potential to reduce poverty and boost workers' bargaining power, and reveals how smartphones track location for big data and corporate intelligence.
Examine how your smartphone location data is collected and turned into big data by location data companies. Identify who watches the data, where it goes, and the privacy implications.
Explore how SDKs let smaller apps piggyback on larger ones, monetizing user data through access and cross‑app sharing. Assess privacy policies, consent screens, and basis for data collection and sale.
Explore how apps share location data with third parties and data brokers, and examine real-world disclosures and benefits, from disaster response to real-time public safety insights.
Explore how Google monetizes user data through search, Gmail, Maps, and other services, and consider a fair model where users share in the profits from ads and profiling.
Explore how your data could yield passive income as Google, Facebook, and other free services monetize usage, with a bipartisan bill to disclose individual earnings.
Explore how earning from data and potential revenue sharing mirrors universal basic income, and how passive income could reshape the future of income as automation rises.
Explore universal basic income, a no-strings-attached monthly amount for simply being, its roots, potential impact, and global adoption from Switzerland to Kenya.
Explore how automation and self-driving technology drive technological unemployment, threatening truck drivers, warehouse workers, and service jobs as autonomous systems reshape transportation and the labor landscape.
Assess how advancing robots and AI could reshape driver jobs and services, from self-driving cars to automated health and finance tasks, and explore effects on living standards and inequality.
Assess whether universal basic income can disrupt progress without shrinking work, drawing on Marinescu's studies, tribal casino dividends, and Alaska residents' dividends.
Learn how a free app pays you for anonymous location data, offering $5-$25 monthly and perpetual referral earnings.
Uber has stated that its drivers can earn $55,000 per year.
However, after a driver pays all their fees, insurance, and taxes, plus the costs for owning, maintaining, and cleaning their vehicle, their earnings will be substantially lower than the figure estimated by Uber.
Independent analysis shows that the hourly earnings of a typical Uber driver earns between $8.55 and $11.77 per hour.
Those figures will vary when influenced by the factors, such as the particular Uber service provided, Uber’s pricing schematics, and the number of hours worked in total by the driver.
Those numbers are quite a bit different.
The reality is that even full-time Uber drivers are at the mercy of market forces in this gig industry.
Not to mention, COVID-19 is decimating driver earnings.
On average rideshare income is down by over 80% since pandemic began.
As a result, many drivers are struggling to make ends meet and are at risk of not being able to cover staple expenses like car and insurance payments.
So in this course, we going to show you how to earn extra money by doing what you already do - driving.
By optimizing your time in the car to maximize your earning potential, you can make more money than drivers who do not.