It’s because the few more dollars per day empowers people not to have to deal with exploitative practices, to be able to save an emergency fund, to be able to look elsewhere for opportunities.

They had literal segments on Fox where they were complaining that companies couldn’t strong arm people anymore because COVID turned the balance in labor value. Uber is known to give desperation compensation much lower then drivers who are more selective. Data is used to min-max labor exploitation.

or the leaders of those companies

This is key. Zuc put tape over his laptop webcams, cause they know this invasion of privacy is endemic to everything nowadays.

Not if he sells the water he used to wash it as sock juice