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"Where’s your professional integrity is what I’m asking." There are millions of happy Uber drivers and 10's of millions of happy Uber customers, it's beyond pa

"Where’s your professional integrity is what I’m asking." There are millions of happy Uber drivers and 10's of millions of happy Uber customers, it's beyond pale for you to even ask this question. Uber treats is drivers reasonably well or else nobody would be driving for them. "to mess with people’s lives in likely illegal ways?" 99.9% of Uber is just connecting drivers and riders, that's not 'messing with people's lives, likely in illegal ways'. Facebook, Google/Youtube and Twitter are literally active channels for literal terrorists to promote mass murder - and you're worried about Uber?

pimmen 9y ago
I care about the 0.1& too. I don't believe in knowingly messing with people for the benefit of everyone else. And if the last part of your argument is "why care about anything less than the worst things in the world?" I don't agree with that thinking, plain and simple. A company that big and influential being that completely disrespectful towards regulators, tax payers, riders, female engineers, drivers, competitors and investors is something we need to seriously mind.
- alexasmyths 9y ago
  "A company that big and influential being that completely disrespectful towards regulators, tax payers, riders, female engineers, drivers, competitors and investors is something we need to seriously mind." This is both wrong and naive. The only game that Uber has not played well lately is one of PR. Uber - for all it's issues - treats female staffers basically the same as most other companies. The average person working at Uber, Google, Exxon or Maytag for that matter is not going to see some radical difference. Uber aggressively pursues the IP of other companies the same way as any other company. Google will interview individuals, and make 'fake BD deals' with companies expressly for the purpose of gleaning (i.e. stealing) IP - this is common. It doesn't make it right - but it would be naive to indicate that this is something Uber is doing. + Uber is screwing over riders? How exactly? The reality is that millions of happy, recurring users flail this argument as emotional hyperbole. Uber is extremely well liked by it's users. "Oh this evil company screws over it's customers" - just as every day considerably more people opt to use it over alternatives ... I mean really. + Drivers - for the most part, they've been as good as any company. They change policies, which is normal, it's just that their policy disputes are public, whereas you don't see it with other groups. Uber is mostly similar to any other high tech organization but they have access to considerably less information that entities such as Google and Facebook.

pimmen 9y ago

I care about the 0.1& too. I don't believe in knowingly messing with people for the benefit of everyone else. And if the last part of your argument is "why care about anything less than the worst things in the world?" I don't agree with that thinking, plain and simple. A company that big and influential being that completely disrespectful towards regulators, tax payers, riders, female engineers, drivers, competitors and investors is something we need to seriously mind.

alexasmyths 9y ago
"A company that big and influential being that completely disrespectful towards regulators, tax payers, riders, female engineers, drivers, competitors and investors is something we need to seriously mind." This is both wrong and naive. The only game that Uber has not played well lately is one of PR. Uber - for all it's issues - treats female staffers basically the same as most other companies. The average person working at Uber, Google, Exxon or Maytag for that matter is not going to see some radical difference. Uber aggressively pursues the IP of other companies the same way as any other company. Google will interview individuals, and make 'fake BD deals' with companies expressly for the purpose of gleaning (i.e. stealing) IP - this is common. It doesn't make it right - but it would be naive to indicate that this is something Uber is doing. + Uber is screwing over riders? How exactly? The reality is that millions of happy, recurring users flail this argument as emotional hyperbole. Uber is extremely well liked by it's users. "Oh this evil company screws over it's customers" - just as every day considerably more people opt to use it over alternatives ... I mean really. + Drivers - for the most part, they've been as good as any company. They change policies, which is normal, it's just that their policy disputes are public, whereas you don't see it with other groups. Uber is mostly similar to any other high tech organization but they have access to considerably less information that entities such as Google and Facebook.