Among the lucky winners will be Uber's founders (one of them, the notorious Travis Kalanick, already collected $1.4 billion by selling one-third of his shares when he was forced out of management), the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, mutual fund giant Fidelity and other venture capitalists.

Not so lucky are the thousands of Uber drivers who use their private cars to pick up and drop off people who once used taxis and then share the fares with Uber corporate.

Even the greediest financier should agree it isn't fair.

Where union-represented cab drivers of old had health insurance and pensions, Uber drivers are classified as "independent contractors." They get no benefits and each April 15 have to pay taxes on the money they earned, since there isn't any withholding to make it less painful.

In a business section story earlier this week, the New York Times reported on this disparity by interviewing a number of Uber drivers who are starting to feel left out.