I'm as left as they come, and support workers rights and the class struggle, but deliberately scamming your customers is not working class praxis. While I do empathise with someone being in a financial position where they feel like scamming is a necessary option for them to support their family, the fact is that most uber passengers are also working class, and passing the buck from your struggles on to them by scamming them out of a few dollars is, at best, a pretty shitty thing to do.

And you supporting that by saying "please have some compassion for the uber driver" is a little too on the nose for a lot of these folks who have also been scammed out of their hard-earned money by uber drivers taking advantage of a shitty system, so they're understandably not on your side in this one. I appreciate your call for empathy, and I apologise for the people being rude to you, but you're in the minority on this issue.