Some problems with this:
1) Uber and Lyft sell a service that is in high demand
2) While Uber/Lyft offer referral fees, you get no commission if people you refer also refer others.
3) Lyft driver referral commissions are almost entirely impossible to profit from because in order to get the commission the driver you recruit has to complete a number of rides first that in many places is not possible, and even where it is, would require the new driver to put in serious hours to meet the criteria that I would guess most drivers do not put in.
4) Contrary to the pyramid scheme where "Expanding indefinitely" helps those who are already in, "expanding" the number of drivers will actually HURT those who are already in by reducing their earning potential. Whereas the Pyramid scheme helps the early referers at the expense of the new guys, the Uber referall only helps the referrer himself at the expense of those who referred him to begin with.
5) The driver pool is self-limiting. High rolling drivers who want to make $20 an hour in profit won't like it, but at the end of the day people only drive because it is profitable. The fact is that as the number of drivers in a place increases (without a corresponding increase in clients), that your pay grade will reduce from professional pay levels to that of the fast food worker. But so long as there are still non-Uber jobs it won't really go lower than that because people will do those other jobs instead of Uber thus causing the ones that stay to make a competitive amount of money.
Unless you have access to a very wide audience, chances are you make more money for driving for Uber/Lyft than through referrals.
Good luck even getting $1 per hour without building a pyramid of referrals on true pyramid schemes like the multi-level marketing schemes, such as ACN, which Donald Trump endorsed.
1) Uber and Lyft sell a service that is in high demand
2) While Uber/Lyft offer referral fees, you get no commission if people you refer also refer others.
3) Lyft driver referral commissions are almost entirely impossible to profit from because in order to get the commission the driver you recruit has to complete a number of rides first that in many places is not possible, and even where it is, would require the new driver to put in serious hours to meet the criteria that I would guess most drivers do not put in.
4) Contrary to the pyramid scheme where "Expanding indefinitely" helps those who are already in, "expanding" the number of drivers will actually HURT those who are already in by reducing their earning potential. Whereas the Pyramid scheme helps the early referers at the expense of the new guys, the Uber referall only helps the referrer himself at the expense of those who referred him to begin with.
5) The driver pool is self-limiting. High rolling drivers who want to make $20 an hour in profit won't like it, but at the end of the day people only drive because it is profitable. The fact is that as the number of drivers in a place increases (without a corresponding increase in clients), that your pay grade will reduce from professional pay levels to that of the fast food worker. But so long as there are still non-Uber jobs it won't really go lower than that because people will do those other jobs instead of Uber thus causing the ones that stay to make a competitive amount of money.
Unless you have access to a very wide audience, chances are you make more money for driving for Uber/Lyft than through referrals.
Good luck even getting $1 per hour without building a pyramid of referrals on true pyramid schemes like the multi-level marketing schemes, such as ACN, which Donald Trump endorsed.
