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Stories like this one—and the ones on FB during its outage—reveal the solipsism of the HN crowd. 99% of the population find Uber/FB etc. awesome for mundane, d
by jmeister 5y ago
Stories like this one—and the ones on FB during its outage—reveal the solipsism of the HN crowd.
99% of the population find Uber/FB etc. awesome for mundane, day-to-day use.
- 0_____0 5y agoThat's not the point. Yes, Uber et. al. made a desirable product, but it's not a sustainable one. As Uber feels the purse strings tighten, they now have to raise prices to roughly what taxis were charging before. The last time I hired a car from the airport to home, it was actually cheaper to hire a guy at the taxi stand than to call a car. It would be all fine and well if that just meant that some investors ended up subsidizing movement of people for most of a decade, but those subsidies caused real damage. Diverting people from public transit, municipalities subsidizing rides rather than building infrastructure, entrenching worker precarity via things like Prop 22.