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Abusing legal gray areas is a fundamental part of their business model. They were able to position this in a positive 'move fast and break things' light. Now p

Abusing legal gray areas is a fundamental part of their business model. They were able to position this in a positive 'move fast and break things' light. Now people are noticing things are broken and are fixing them. For example, they were abusing an exception for businesses grossing <30K a year to not pay taxes in Canada. That law is now being reviewed. As far as I can tell Uber's corporate culture is both self-interested, self-righteous, and entirely inconsiderate of the people and markets they affect. You can only piss in the pool so long before it catches up with you, and they don't have any other runway left. We have some of the greatest minds in the world collaborating, and this is one of their primary ambassadors.

will_hughes 10y ago
> Abusing legal gray areas is a fundamental part of their business model. Uber was/is quite willing to break the law (and encourage their drivers to do so, with lies and misdirection), even in areas where it's very clear that they're in the wrong. Leveraging a ton of market anger about the existing taxi services helped them get started, it's unclear if it'll be enough to sustain them.
jimmywanger 10y ago
> Abusing legal gray areas What abuses are you talking about? Their assertion that they're not a taxi company holds some water, and their 30k a year exemption in Canada is for independent subcontractors, which Uber argues that its drivers are. Every company looks at laws and sees just how much money they have to pay. There is no abuse in this case.