Uber is buying revenue. It is straight out of the 90's dot-com bubble company handbook. Everything they do screams 'pump and dump'. Problem is that a lot more

Uber is buying revenue. It is straight out of the 90's dot-com bubble company handbook. Everything they do screams 'pump and dump'. Problem is that a lot more external parties are in on the scam than most people realize - media, politicians, other companies owned by the same VCs, and so on. All of these can help them keep up appearances of being a successful company and a promising future behemoth, even while the most basic common sense says the opposite.