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Umm... they are not Uber employees. They're Uber contractors. I'm not saying that Uber is a saintly company with only good intentions. I'm saying that it's misg
by dkonofalski 9y ago
Umm... they are not Uber employees. They're Uber contractors. I'm not saying that Uber is a saintly company with only good intentions. I'm saying that it's misguided and silly to blame Uber for the fact that this person has to live in his car. Without Uber, he would be getting no income whatsoever and would be living in his car anyways. At the very least, he could drive to another city while Ubering and picking up fares and improve his situation. Blaming Uber is not only wrong but doesn't actually fix his situation at all.
- microwavecamera 9y agoLets exploit the poor. Awesome.
- dkonofalski 9y agoWhat? So we should blame Uber because some of its contractors are poor? What are you even on about?
- microwavecamera 9y agoWhat am I on about? The new era of the robber barons and how it hurts our entire industry as a whole. I've been in the tech industry for 20 years now and the Ubers of the world make all of us look bad. We shouldn't reward bad behavior or the Machiavellian idea that the end justifies the means. Uber will fail and the new tech bubble will burst. They've proven time and time again that they're incompetent and so far have squandered billions in investments. This will scare investors away from the tech industry just as it happened in the early 2000s. It took years for our industry to recover and here we are again repeating history. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.