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What do you base that on?

• frgtpsswrdlame 10y ago
  Here's a link from a comment a bit further down the thread: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/uber-true-cost-uh-oh https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/uber-true-cost-uh... If you really want to go down the rabbit hole I'd recommend reading this series on nakedcapitalism. They're at nine parts now: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?s=can+uber+ever+deliver http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?s=can+uber+ever+deliver
  • valuearb 10y ago
    The naked capitalism series is written by a cab dispatch consultant, and reads almost like a paid hatchet job. Makes huge assumptions on data not in hand, and spins iffy conclusions with evident bias. At one point he claims Ubers costs can never be as low as cab dispatch because Uber is spending money expanding! That makes zero sense. It's pretty clear Uber is in heavy investment mode, in market expansion as well as new businesses (uber-eats, self driving cars, etc), no one can know what their real costs per ride are unless they can break out that detail. But it's also clear in their core business their cost to dispatch a ride should only be pennies.