There is much to be faulted in Uber, which has branched out from delivering people into delivering meals, under the unappetising name UberEats. But even I, someone who can rarely bring herself to write the word ‘sharing’, as in economy, without inverted commas, am prepared to give credit where credit is due.
Uber has made private door-to-door transport accessible to far more people than before. It has thus done a lot of people a favour and hugely expanded the market, harnessing new technology to do so. It has provided jobs for people who did not have them, or who prefer to work in the semi-autonomous Uber way. It’s made me, a diehard sceptic of the ‘sharing’ economy, wonder whether a form of Uberfication might not be just the thing to shake up our so-called ‘care system’ which, as I have recently discovered, is not fit for purpose.
Mary Dejevsky and John Sutherland discuss where social care is getting it wrong:
A while back, knowing that I would be going away for a week, I set out to find help for my husband, who has Parkinson’s.
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