Uber drivers are not paid very well, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the money Uber is willing to pay you to drive for them isn’t enough to survive. However it would be a mistake to assume everyone who lives paycheck to paycheck is doing so because they’re being paid a sub-living wage. I’m in college and I know students who got into thousand of dollars of credit card debt so they could buy weed and designer clothes. If you give people money and say “by the way, we’re going to need some of this back eventually” (which is the tax situation with independent contractors), many people are just not capable of not spending all of it. (again, not saying this is the case for uber drivers. Although in the case of the uber drivers, keep in mind that there are two factors that determine their wage, what uber is willing to pay and the rate of taxation. Every uber driver could get something like a 30% raise if the government didn’t find it necessary to tax on third of the income of people who, in your words, don’t even make enough money to survive. I find it strange that blame only ever seems to go to uber in this situation)