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Given their downright ethical behaviour, and utterly confused marketing do-over, does anyone a. Really care, or b. feel surprised? If you run your company in a

Given their downright ethical behaviour, and utterly confused marketing do-over, does anyone a. Really care, or b. feel surprised? If you run your company in an ethically abhorrent way across the globe from the get-go, is it any wonder you eventualy will go belly up?

gragas 10y ago
Lots of unethical companies are very successful.
- kwhitefoot 10y ago
  Perhaps you could enlighten us by naming them.
  - gragas 10y ago
    It really depends on your definition of ethical. Volkswagen is unarguably unethical (or at least has been unethical) and profited hugely because of it. Nestle wants to have a monopoly on water. Almost all tradition energy companies (some of them are the biggest, most successful companies in the world) make the rest of the world pay for the negative externalities that they create.
    - chris_wot 10y ago
      Volkswagen found that being unethical was not hugely profitable in the long term.
spraak 10y ago
Lots of worse companies have survived and continue to survive.. I don't disagree that there have been problems with Uber, but I don't think there is a direct relationship from ethics to survival, though that would be ideal..
- nashashmi 10y ago
  Those worse companies become worse due to corporate pressure to deliver. But Uber has been like this from the beginning starting with the founder. The body is as corrupt as the head. I hope Uber fails while bringing about auto driving to the market. The disruption from an Uber piñata bursting will be good for the market.
wolfgke 10y ago
Every day you (and other people) vote with their wallet which company is getting their money. So simply vote against Uber and inspire lots of people to do so, too, if this is your opinion.
- temp 10y ago
  The wallet in some countries is already voting them out, so they break the law to be competitive.
- chris_wot 10y ago
  I've never used them and will continue to never use them :-)
  - wolfgke 10y ago
    > I've never used them and will continue to never use them :-) ... and convinced your surroundings to never use them? ;-)
    - chris_wot 10y ago
      Pretty much. I've shown the things they do with customer data and many of my friends and colleagues have decided to stick with taxis. HTH.
figjamjam 10y ago
Upvoted; I'd like to defend ethics here from the other respondents. Despite what may seem counterintuitive to making money; there is a positive correlation between company success and ethics. An ethical company is more likely to have ethical staff and ethical staff are less likely to cheat the company. This rot from within is often a companies biggest risk.

gragas 10y ago

Lots of unethical companies are very successful.

kwhitefoot 10y ago
Perhaps you could enlighten us by naming them.
- gragas 10y ago
  It really depends on your definition of ethical. Volkswagen is unarguably unethical (or at least has been unethical) and profited hugely because of it. Nestle wants to have a monopoly on water. Almost all tradition energy companies (some of them are the biggest, most successful companies in the world) make the rest of the world pay for the negative externalities that they create.
  - chris_wot 10y ago
    Volkswagen found that being unethical was not hugely profitable in the long term.

spraak 10y ago

Lots of worse companies have survived and continue to survive.. I don't disagree that there have been problems with Uber, but I don't think there is a direct relationship from ethics to survival, though that would be ideal..

nashashmi 10y ago
Those worse companies become worse due to corporate pressure to deliver. But Uber has been like this from the beginning starting with the founder. The body is as corrupt as the head. I hope Uber fails while bringing about auto driving to the market. The disruption from an Uber piñata bursting will be good for the market.

wolfgke 10y ago

Every day you (and other people) vote with their wallet which company is getting their money. So simply vote against Uber and inspire lots of people to do so, too, if this is your opinion.

temp 10y ago
The wallet in some countries is already voting them out, so they break the law to be competitive.
chris_wot 10y ago
I've never used them and will continue to never use them :-)
- wolfgke 10y ago
  > I've never used them and will continue to never use them :-) ... and convinced your surroundings to never use them? ;-)
  - chris_wot 10y ago
    Pretty much. I've shown the things they do with customer data and many of my friends and colleagues have decided to stick with taxis. HTH.

figjamjam 10y ago

Upvoted; I'd like to defend ethics here from the other respondents. Despite what may seem counterintuitive to making money; there is a positive correlation between company success and ethics. An ethical company is more likely to have ethical staff and ethical staff are less likely to cheat the company. This rot from within is often a companies biggest risk.