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Its honestly not worth arguing about it. I have personally benefited with driving for uber as well as lots/most of drivers i have talked to. Its not perfect but

by bogota 5y ago

Its honestly not worth arguing about it. I have personally benefited with driving for uber as well as lots/most of drivers i have talked to. Its not perfect but it works great when you have kids and other things you have to worry about. The job was never meant to solve wealth inequality but it sure has helped a ton of people. Jesus my life would have been 100x better if i could have driven uber in college instead of working absolutely shit job with managers who hate you because you aren’t going to be stuck working this crap job until your 60 like them. However if you go online you would think uber was killing peoples first born child. Internet forums are getting rather stupid over the past 5 years. You are mostly forced to use a few big ones that all have a hive mind of downvotes on anything contradictory to what the majority thinks. Unfortunately being the majority doesn’t make you right or even smart. Often times its the opposite. But i like to write up these posts so someone can downvote me and feel a little power.

clairity 5y ago
sure, but the reason it's not worth arguing over is because large organization are exploitative by design. i'd argue it's the whole point of becoming big, as it's certainly not about being more service-oriented.
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm Just something that might interest you on the topic of organization.
  - clairity 5y ago
    yes, that’s part of the basis of my argument[0]. there is an optimum firm size, and it’s not ‘as big as possible’. no industry—-even capital-intensive ones like aerospace—-needs mega-corporations. we’re much better served by a heterogeneous mix of mid-sized companies, including in ridesharing. mid-sized companies are big and resilient enough to benefit from economies of scale and bring efficiency to a market, but are small and nimble enough to be responsive to customer and employee needs, not just to naked capital returns. size (and other mechanisms, like the corporate veil) act to distance decision-makers from the consequences of their actions, so that they can pursue entirely greedy aims without remorse. we need to dismantle such systemic ruthlessness, and replace it with human-centered organization. it’s one of the core issues driving the economic contribution to sociopolitical disunity. [0]: one of the points of a firm is to solve the coordination problem.
treeman79 5y ago
Got injured and could no longer work a 9-5 office job. Uber and Airbnb kept me and family off street while I recovered. Plenty bad things could be said. But I would probably be dead if not for the gig jobs.

by bogota 5y ago

clairity 5y ago

sure, but the reason it's not worth arguing over is because large organization are exploitative by design. i'd argue it's the whole point of becoming big, as it's certainly not about being more service-oriented.

betwixthewires 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm Just something that might interest you on the topic of organization.
- clairity 5y ago
  yes, that’s part of the basis of my argument[0]. there is an optimum firm size, and it’s not ‘as big as possible’. no industry—-even capital-intensive ones like aerospace—-needs mega-corporations. we’re much better served by a heterogeneous mix of mid-sized companies, including in ridesharing. mid-sized companies are big and resilient enough to benefit from economies of scale and bring efficiency to a market, but are small and nimble enough to be responsive to customer and employee needs, not just to naked capital returns. size (and other mechanisms, like the corporate veil) act to distance decision-makers from the consequences of their actions, so that they can pursue entirely greedy aims without remorse. we need to dismantle such systemic ruthlessness, and replace it with human-centered organization. it’s one of the core issues driving the economic contribution to sociopolitical disunity. [0]: one of the points of a firm is to solve the coordination problem.

treeman79 5y ago

Got injured and could no longer work a 9-5 office job. Uber and Airbnb kept me and family off street while I recovered. Plenty bad things could be said. But I would probably be dead if not for the gig jobs.