Do you want to be an Uber driver? Many don’t.
Why don’t people want to be Uber drivers?
Besides the obvious that Uber drivers don’t make much money, their lives are also miserable. They drive to wherever the Uber Apps on their phones (or iPad) tell them to go. They pick up whoever the Uber Apps tells them to. They charge whatever the Uber Apps tell them. In other words, they mindlessly do whatever the Apps say for hours a day. In return, Uber drivers are paid less than the minimum wage.
Uber drivers are the free goods that Uber sells to their customers. The same also happened to freelance workers on many gig workers’ platforms. The gig workers are the free goods that those platforms sell to those shopping for freelance workers.
Many professional women friends of mine will not want to be Uber Drivers. They have no reason to. They make more money being attorneys, doctors, dentists, engineers, venture capitalists, etc. They value their work and their time. They don’t want any App to tell them where to go, when to meet and pick up a person, and how much they should be valued.
It is, therefore, satirical that many of these successful professional women have succumbed to dating apps that are doing to them precisely what the Uber App is doing to the Uber drivers.
What do dating apps do?
First, the women on these dating apps are the Free Goods (like Uber drivers) being sold to the buyers for dates. The same is true of the men using these dating platforms. They, too, are the Free Goods being sold to the buyers for dates.
Second, the women using dating apps spend hours of a day seeking out their next person to pick up. Many women do this mindlessly, though they may think they are making good judgment calls based on the information provided by the potential dates and the “good matches” served up by the dating apps. If the “matches” were any good, or the judgment calls were any good, the success rate of at least the first or second dates would have been much better. They haven’t been.
Uber Apps and other Gig Workers Apps are not there to add value to the workers. Uber App does not have the best interest of their drivers in mind or by design. They need the workers because those are the Free Goods they sell to the buyers. If the Apps owners have to pay these drivers or freelancers to join their platforms, these Apps will not survive.
Dating Apps are not there to add value to the women and men seeking partners that could improve their lives. These Apps may create the illusion that they are there to serve women. They are not. They serve only the financial interests of the owners of the app.
The Dating Apps of today are inadequate. As many women have built successful careers outside of the house, these women do not have the time and opportunities to seek out their potential partners for life. At the same time, many more women and men continue to be added to the pool daily, making the need to serve these women and men direr.
What may be a better way to serve these women and men? That is a question for version 2.0 of Dating Apps to answer.
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