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I am amazed by the examples of proper businesses that bring value. Uber - seeking rent on poor people (drivers) and using them as a tool to fight taxi corporat
by ozim 6y ago
I am amazed by the examples of proper businesses that bring value.
Uber - seeking rent on poor people (drivers) and using them as a tool to fight taxi corporations. Taxi corporations nowadays also have apps where you can order a cab and pay with it. Uber forced this change maybe but we don't need it anymore.
AirBnB - helping people who already ruin cities by owning flats/houses for passive income to ruin it even more by making it more profitable. Building a hotel is costly and ruining someone neighborhood by building a hotel is hard. Ruining neighborhood by buying off flats and making them short term rentals is easy.
Amazon - well let's not go into how much of businesses they ruined. How much value they create vs how much bad stuff they do is probably not easy to "calculate" but sucking out value from low wage workers and passing it to people who buy stuff online is not what I would call creating positive value.
Domainparkers are annoying but they are not sucking value out from poor people and are not externalizing costs to society like those above mentioned companies. Author could get some perspective, not getting some domain name is whining and people are more creative that mostly they don't need to buy off those to run business.
- xyzelement 6y agoI get what you're talking about but value is in the eyes of the consumer. All these ethic concerns holding, I can tell you that my life is completely different with Uber, AirBnB and Amazon than without, and probably most people in the developed world would say something similar.