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Is this a good thing? I'm usually the one defending Uber here, but I'm not hugely a fan of them operating in Saudi Arabia. Greasing one of the stickiest wheels

Is this a good thing? I'm usually the one defending Uber here, but I'm not hugely a fan of them operating in Saudi Arabia. Greasing one of the stickiest wheels in a tar-covered regime is hardly what I call a humanitarian effort. Saudi Arabia's oft-brutal [1] maltreatment of women has nasty secondary effects on their society, and this is lifting one. [1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/8952641/Saudi-Arabia-execution-of-sorcery-woman-condemned.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar...

azernik 11y ago
Sure, this is lifting the effects of Saudi Arabia's awful gender relations on their society... by making out substantially better for the actual people disadvantaged by that system. I find it very hard to see any downside that compares.
- rayiner 11y ago
  They're not making it better out of the goodness of their hearts--they're profiting from the situation.
  - azernik 11y ago
    Oh sure. I absolutely don't attribute the good Uber does sometimes do to altruism. They're skimming off a cut of that good and making a killing.