{"id":1889,"date":"2017-01-05T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:10:27","slug":"the-realities-of-the-uber-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"The realities of the Uber economy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture the situation in London. Rent is <strong>\u00a31000 a month<\/strong> for a small flat. The tenant is a driver for Uber. Now this person works all day as a self employed driver. They earn about <strong>\u00a39 a hour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One then \u00a0has to look at the real picture. So they have to run the car, fuel it, pay for wear and tear on the car, such a tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Then they need to pay themselves a wage. The income is based on picking up passengers. It is not constant.<\/p>\n<p>Wages are low. Tax collected then by the government is low. National Insurance collected by the government is low.<\/p>\n<p>Rent paid by the driver is high, at \u00a31000 a month. The numbers do not work.<\/p>\n<p>Living standards are falling. Taxes collected by government to pay for key public services are falling. People are just making a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture the situation in London. Rent is \u00a31000 a month for a small flat. The tenant is a driver for Uber. Now this person works all day as a self employed driver. They earn about \u00a39 a hour. One then \u00a0has to look at the real picture. So they have to run the car, fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}