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> low income area to the rail station or to Walmart, you are poor. That is a wickedly evil definition of poor and extremely distopian if you truly believe that
by cryptoz 9y ago
> low income area to the rail station or to Walmart, you are poor.
That is a wickedly evil definition of poor and extremely distopian if you truly believe that. Your scenario does not make someone poor or define them as poor or anything like that. It is a data point that Uber can use to guess your income but it does not mean you are poor. To define poverty like that is so extremely mean and also possibly straight false.
- wongarsu 9y agoOf course that's not a good way of defining poverty. For all I know, somebody living in a low income area and shopping at Walmart could be a billionaire that lives frugal. But to Uber that doesn't actually matter: somebody who seems to spend little money on living expenses or travel won't spend a lot on Uber either, and likely wouldn't stay a customer if Uber inceased prices for him. In the end, spending is much more important in this context than actual wealth.