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I applaud the CEO for this decision. It forces at least a glimpse of understanding on the local voters that one cannot combine ideological utopia and a function
by cft 6y ago
I applaud the CEO for this decision. It forces at least a glimpse of understanding on the local voters that one cannot combine ideological utopia and a functional economy.
- fooey 6y agoIt'll force local municipalities to take care of their transportation needs directly instead of outsourcing it to disloyal mercenaries. The cities that will be hurt are the ones that over relied on a parasitic business instead of investing in essential infrastructure.
- chucknthem 6y agoI think your views of local municipalities ability to provide transportation in california are way too optimistic. San Francisco currently operates the most expensive bus stop ever built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbay_Transit_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbay_Transit_Center
- cft 6y agoWhat is parasitic about it? That they are using public roads?
- fooey 6y agoThey operate under illegal business models to produce impossibly low costs, driving out all legitimate competitors, including municipal infrastructure. The Uber business plan has always been to break the law at a massive enough scale that they can buy new laws before enforcement catches up with them.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI'm just not convinced this is a thing that's happened. Which cities have avoided investing in municipal infrastructure just because Uber exists?
- jayd16 6y agoUber isn't special. If they can't exist without exploiting workers then they shouldn't exist. The void will get filled by something better.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThen shouldn't you also be applauding the CEO for his decision? I hate to present this kind of gotcha, but I'm honestly confused on how to reconcile "Uber shouldn't exist in California" and "Uber shouldn't announce it's shutting down in California".
- jayd16 6y agoI don't personally have an opinion of the CEO but I think most people would have preferred preventing this situation, making it right, or shutting down in a way that doesn't leave users and drivers without much warning. Instead we see this posturing threat. I was just pointing out that the market exists and there's money to be made. Something will fill the void if Uber leaves.
- Fargren 6y ago> one cannot combine ideological utopia and a functional economy. And still we should try. It's not like California didn't have a functional economy before Uber. Sometimes it's right to make sacrifices in order to uphold our ideas.
- icebraining 6y agoAB5 is broader than Uber, and didn't exist before it.