The Trades Union Congress (TUC), bless their hearts, is at it again. This time, they're screeching about Uber's "dynamic pricing," claiming it's some sort of dystopian nightmare where drivers are forced to, gasp, respond to supply and demand. Apparently, the invisible hand of the market is now a shadowy algorithm that needs to be stopped before it enslaves us all. It's not like the Soviet Union tried this and failed or anything.

These union dinosaurs, who probably still use fax machines and rotary phones, are upset that Uber's algorithms adjust fares for passengers and pay rates for drivers based on real-time market conditions. They call it "worker exploitation." We call it capitalism, baby! If you don't like the price, don't drive. Simple as that. Go work at the Post Office or something, then come back and complain when you're replaced by robots.

The TUC's report, compiled with the Worker Info Exchange (WIE – sounds like a bunch of commies) and academics from Nottingham Trent’s Work Futures Observatory (probably funded by George Soros), features sob stories from gig workers who whine about the unpredictability of their earnings. Boo hoo. Newsflash: life's unpredictable. Get over it. Maybe try budgeting or, I don't know, investing instead of waiting for the government to hand you a participation trophy.

These clowns want the government to ban dynamic pricing and give unions access to Uber's algorithms. Because, you know, nothing screams "free market" like government price controls and union snooping. Next they'll want to dictate what kind of music drivers can listen to.

Uber initially took a fixed 20% cut of fares in the UK (later increased to 25%), a pretty good deal for connecting drivers and passengers. Dynamic pricing is just a more sophisticated way of doing the same thing. Of course, that means less control for the union, so naturally they want to destroy it.

One Uber driver, Vladimir, whines about the lack of transparency in dynamic pricing. Maybe Vladimir should learn to code instead of complaining about algorithms he doesn't understand. Plenty of free resources out there, but I guess whining is easier.

An Oxford University study suggests some Uber drivers have experienced a decrease in hourly earnings. So what? Some have probably experienced increases too. That's how markets work. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Stop acting like every job is guaranteed to be a winning lottery ticket.