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I indulged in a bit of forward-fantasy, imagining an eventual death penalty for Uber. The objection to a corporate death penalty is usually "but what about the
by a3n 9y ago
I indulged in a bit of forward-fantasy, imagining an eventual death penalty for Uber.
The objection to a corporate death penalty is usually "but what about the employees?"
Well, what about them? The desk-workers are mostly in high demand, no problem.
And the drivers ... well, I see lots of Lyft and Uber stickers on the same cars. If there's no Uber in town, Uber users will likely use Lyft.
Is that an unseen danger for corporations in the "sharing" economy? Your employees are portable by definition?
This got me also thinking, why isn't there a two way auction for ride sharing, with companies competing to "sponsor" the ride, and drivers competing to drive the ride, and on the other side, customers competing to buy a ride. Or just cut out the Uber/Lyft middlemen and have independent drivers compete?
Is it too soon to "Fix Ride Sharing!"?
- beager 9y agoReal-time bidding for ride sharing would be pretty cool, across any number of services and independents. A regulatory mess for sure, but as we're seeing, the extant players already constitute a regulatory mess.
- skgoa 9y agoExchanges for distributed bidding exist for financial securities. It's a bit of an IT hassle, but not an unsolved problem.
- beager 9y agoAs it does for adtech which I was referring to. I’m sure it’s part of Uber and related services as well, but it should be applied across services to create maximal competition.