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It's possible to be OK with (or even approve of) a company defying local regulations that exist to prop up an entrenched legacy industry, and not be OK with a c

• rdl 9y ago
  Indeed. I don't even care exclusively about the sexual harassment solely as harassment; the problem is Uber was treating its team badly. The "jacket thing" was as bad as the rest, even though it wasn't harassment under any definition, for this reason.
• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  And I do not understand this view (even though I see it often expressed). Is society such an abstract thing for people as to be irrelevant? Frankly, we're talking about Uber hurting the livelihood of and exploiting lots of people worldwide, all for the sake of profits (the whole talk about "disrupting entrenched legacy industry" was always a PR bullshit, as evidenced e.g. by them breaking any law they didn't like, and not just those helping "taxi mafias") - and comparing that to them hurting the feelings of a few employees. Frankly, this pile-up on Uber because of Susan Fowler story feels like a case of "arson, murder, jaywalking"[0] to me. I do appreciate it nonetheless, because maybe this will be enough to reach critical mass and finally kill off their business. -- [0] - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJay...
  • icebraining 9y ago
    In what way does Uber exploit people more than existing taxi companies?
    • pdkl95 9y ago
      Uber unethical behavior doesn't magically become acceptable when other businesses use similar unethical practices.