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Net impact on society: You and all your friends use UberPool to get around San Francisco for a few bucks one way. No more car insurance or car lease payments fo
by chronic940 9y ago
Net impact on society: You and all your friends use UberPool to get around San Francisco for a few bucks one way. No more car insurance or car lease payments for 24 year olds. Now the Uber riders can afford their medical bills or college tuition. Uber is bad, right?
Very few people care about the direct negative externalities you mentioned, including here in HN.
- will_brown 9y agoThe thread is about workers' (criminal) liability for the actions they take at the direction of the company they work for....there is literally an entire thread about it for a post that made it to the front page, so I think it's at least of interest to HN, I'm not even sure what your comment is about.
- yebyen 9y agoI never saw that post, so you could link to it. Not sending a downvote, but I would... (citation needed, (criminal)) Nobody should have criminal liability for actions they took on the direction of their employer, while the employer gets away without consequence. Otherwise we should all get law degrees for free.
- yebyen 9y agoBack up, you were talking about this thread weren't you...