The other dude in the car

In “How Uber Explains Our Economic Moment,” MIT’s Andrew McAfee describes a short triphe recently arranged with the big ride-sharing company:

My driver said he’d been with Uber ever since he’d graduated from his master’s program in IT project management last year. This profession was, according to him, going through hard times. In the wake of the great recession steady jobs had been replaced by short-term contracts, and there weren’t even a lot of these to be had. As a result he was now compet...