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1. 5 day old account 2. Wide array of feel-good details to check lots of boxes 3. Completely anecdotal and therefore unverifiable 4. Facebook-level knowledge
by tmuir 10y ago
1. 5 day old account
2. Wide array of feel-good details to check lots of boxes
3. Completely anecdotal and therefore unverifiable
4. Facebook-level knowledge of people you likely spent 10 minutes with
5. Glowing review of Uber
Isn't Fear Uncertainty and Doubt great?
- yummyfajitas 10y agoHere's another anecdote from a very old account. A boy from Bihar, moved to the big city, wanted to drive an auto rickshaw but the Marathis have all the licenses on lockdown. All Uber cares about is that he has a rating > 4.3 stars - ethnicity is irrelevant. (This is also why the racist political party is trying to get Uber shut down.)
- strken 10y ago2. When you ask a stranger about themselves, they put their best foot forward. People are pretty varied. 3. My experience has been that uber drivers in my city work part time for supplementary income. This is a verifiable assertion, but I don't have the means to carry out that verification. However, the assertion that I was responding to has no verification either. Plus, it probably varies from city to city and country to country 5. There are a lot of reasons why Uber is awful, from monopolistic bullying of governments, to not letting drivers set prices, to exposing drivers to market forces at an unprecedented level, but the drivers I've talked to have nearly all worked part time and seemed pretty happy to do so. I'm not in sales, I don't work for Uber, and that's all I'll say about the personal stuff.