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Uber and similar companies are nothing about decentralisation - on the contrary, they are centralising. One mega company which serves tens of countries where be
by danmaz74 8y ago
Uber and similar companies are nothing about decentralisation - on the contrary, they are centralising. One mega company which serves tens of countries where before you had hundreds of small taxi operators. Their value lies mostly in this centralisation.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYup. I always found the narration of Uber the Underdog going against the Evil Taxi Mafia to be funny. In reality, the only mafia-like player in this story is Uber - the multinational corporation that fights against multitude of small local players.
- ratman 8y agoExcept in the real reality there are a lot of Taxi companies run buy real organized crime for the purpose of laundering money... But yeah, I guess both your narrative and the one you counter are equally detached from the real reality
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>Except in the real reality there are a lot of Taxi companies run buy real organized crime for the purpose of laundering money... So? The fact that the business might by people using it as a front for money laundering is immaterial because it does not affect how they do business, how they treat customers or how they treat employees. Letting your money laundering workflow impact your business is how you get caught laundering money.