Legitimate question, will Uber shut down it's Dutch operations now? Will this cost them more money than it's worth to operate there, and would they shutdown to send a message to other nations about there intent should similar rulings be made?
Uber's margins have always been super thin, I would imagine this makes them squarely unprofitable in the Dutch market.
This is what is likely to happen to Uber almost everywhere eventually. Courts will slowly re-impose the workers rights that Uber set out to avoid, the cost of an uber ride will go up, which will shift riders back to more traditional transport - busses, trains, bicycles and cars. Leaving a much smaller, much less powerful Uber. Without the scale and the price making power, Uber will see its value massively massively drop shrinking to the value of a large taxi company (albeit one that's throwing huge amounts of money away on extremely expensive silicon valley engineers)
> Will this cost them more money than it's worth to operate there
But isn't that already the case? I not sure Uber is making a profit anywhere in the world, so maybe they don't care if they lose $0.58 or $0.75 per ride?
Uber's margins have always been super thin, I would imagine this makes them squarely unprofitable in the Dutch market.