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This is obviously about Uber and Lyft. So I want to drop the analogy and talk about the real thing. I live in Bellevue, WA. I would gladly pay 1.5x the normal
by mwcampbell 7y ago
This is obviously about Uber and Lyft. So I want to drop the analogy and talk about the real thing.
I live in Bellevue, WA. I would gladly pay 1.5x the normal rate for Uber in this area to get my rides from a company that (a) is sustainably profitable (b) treats its drivers ethically, e.g. hiring them as real employees, and (c) otherwise has the same rider experience as Uber and Lyft, e.g. booking through an app, average ETA under 10 minutes, automatic payment. Should I expect to pay more? If so, how much more? 2x? 5x? 10x?
- blowski 7y agoI don't know if it's "obviously" about Uber and Lyft, rather than any rivalry in which one side's value proposition includes a huge element of "we're not the other side". Could be about Google vs DuckDuckGo, WhatsApp vs Telegram, iOS vs Android, or even Trump vs Biden.
- jdm2212 7y agoThe author works (worked?) at Lyft.
- draw_down 7y agoRead TFA to find out!
- kaikai 7y agoMany taxi companies now have apps, which offer basically that. Similar cost to Uber/Lyft, entirely different model for their workers.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoIt could also be about the video game industry. AAA studios are known for requiring 80+ hour weeks during crunch time, and there has been chatter among gamers to avoid games these studios produce until workers receive better / fairer working conditions. Of course gamers bought the games anyways, because the loud group who cares about how a game was developed is a small set of the overall audience of that game.