Minimum wages and universal basic income

[tomh009]

For Uber, the positive about the tipping is to supplement the rather meagre income of the Uber driver. Fundamentally the same problem as server wages.

Putting a bandaid on a festering wound isn't fixing anything, even if it's less ugly to look at.

I'm not medically qualified to cure the disease (Uber's compensation policy) but as a customer I can at least give the driver a bandage (a tip). So I will do that. Just like I tip at restaurants, where the staff are also not sufficiently compensated otherwise.