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That's an entertaining soundbite when your business is based on literally extract value from those poor peasants you say deserve better.
by PedroBatista 6y ago
That's an entertaining soundbite when your business is based on literally extract value from those poor peasants you say deserve better.
- aminozuur 6y agoAnd doctors extract value from sick people. Nonetheless, a doctor might have good reasons to state that his patients deserver better. Assuming malice is not an effective counter-argument.
- majewsky 6y agoBad comparison. A doctor does not make people sick (or if they do, they're criminally liable). Uber intentionally designed the contracts of those gig workers.
- logicchains 6y agoAnd Uber doesn't make people need transportation services, or make people need to earn a living by providing transportation services. It's crazy how entitled Americans have become over the past few decades that helping somebody find driving work now counts as "exploitation".
- majewsky 6y agoI'm not American.
- logicchains 6y agoI wasn't referring to you in particular sorry, just the general tone in this thread. The worst part is people are happy to make assumptions without actually even asking Uber drivers what they want.
- tingol 6y agoWow, that analogy is so far off it's insane. You equate extracting value by underpaying employees to doctors curing sick people. Please man, get a grip.
- fastball 6y agoValue that wouldn't exist without Uber connecting these otherwise non-taxi drivers with customers. Literally every business is about extracting value. The question is whether or not that value existed before the business did.
- PedroBatista 6y agoIn a sane World every business created value and THEN extracts a percentage of that value. Maybe I'm old fashioned but there was a time things more of less functioned like that, which is not to say it was all perfect and everybody followed the rules, but these pretend big dick "capitalists" really bug me.
- fastball 6y agoThat is literally what Uber has done though. 99% of Uber drivers were not driving around people in exchange for money before Uber existed. Then Uber built an app, and now you have people making money doing something that they didn't/couldn't do before Uber existed. Uber then literally captures a percentage of this, as they should.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoWhat should Uber do, and what should Uber get for doing it? They're a virtual taxi rank. They need to do basic testing of fitness of drivers - health, driving ability, criminal record; they need to do basic testing of vehicles for roadworthy-ness - monthly on-ramp vehicle certification; they need to maintain the app and servers. I'd imagine 10-20% take of gross would be a reasonable range. How much of that are they doing? Does any country do similar as part of their transport infrastructure?
- tathougies 6y agoUber does background checks and car inspections, and charges 30% I think, which is within a margin of error of your expected 10-20%. Source (random cities in US): https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/charlottesville/inspections/ https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/charlottesville/inspections...