You do though. The sibling comment's LWN link shows that if you don't accept rides, the price you're offered for rides increases.
Edit: I'd love for this to be another thing to add to the list of reasons why Uber sucks. But this specific thing seems pretty normal and what absolutely any company would do in a similar circumstance.
That part is completely opaque to the user. It's at best a dark pattern, but really it just takes advantage of a certain group of people who depend on ridesharing for primary income.
And btw, the no one really knows the exact mechanism thru which you get bonuses cuz its a model trained on many inputs. Not accepting rides is just one part of the equation.
If I were trying to run an ethical pricing model, I would give bonuses to anyone driving in surge/prime hours; I wouldn't limit the bonuses to people that I think would drive in those hours cause that's bs
Edit: I'd love for this to be another thing to add to the list of reasons why Uber sucks. But this specific thing seems pretty normal and what absolutely any company would do in a similar circumstance.