"For years, platform companies like Uber sold politicians and the public on a fantasy of “flexibility” and entrepreneurship while workers absorbed the costs — paying for gas, insurance, and vehicle maintenance, waiting unpaid between rides, and dealing with opaque algorithms that could slash their income or deactivate them without reason or recourse." https://www.readthemaple.com/uber-drivers-have-won-a-contract-for-the-first-time-in-canada/