Is it OK to use Uber now that Travis Kalanick has resigned?

Personally, I wouldn't. But the question is a much bigger one: how do we take responsibility for our role in the exploitive gig economy?

Q: Given all the terrible stories that have come out about Uber, should I erase the app from my phone, even though the CEO has resigned?

Let's list the bad things. Uber, which rightly or wrongly feels like patient zero in the plague of horrible tech startups, had a bad rep even before the events that brought down CEO Travis Kalanick last week. It set the gig economy standard of classifying its drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, to avoid giving them benefits.