"Ethics aside, they can..."[1] I expected nothing less from somebody who worked for Uber. I mean sure, investors will (pardon the pun) eat the ideas up. There

"Ethics aside, they can..."[1] I expected nothing less from somebody who worked for Uber. I mean sure, investors will (pardon the pun) eat the ideas up. There is, after all, money to be made. But the overall state of our industry, where people feel very comfortable discussing business models with a prefix of "Ethics aside" is depressing as hell. Let's not even mention the problem of externalities, of impact on rural communities, of the immense problems that consolidation will bring, or of the exploitive nature of the "gig economy" [1] Slide 25: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v9ifaW1Sxy_oVUtzn63BrqXKGcpMJ_eKrqb59BXjjXA/edit#slide=id.g59095fa191_0_139 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v9ifaW1Sxy_oVUtzn63B...