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Words don’t redefine themselves. Describing low-paying jobs as “slavery” is a metaphor. Saying “certain aspects of X are like Y” does not mean Y ‘is’ X. But,
by lurquer 4y ago
Words don’t redefine themselves.
Describing low-paying jobs as “slavery” is a metaphor. Saying “certain aspects of X are like Y” does not mean Y ‘is’ X.
But, of course, that is often why rhetoricians use metaphors and similes… to dupe and confuse people into a false equivalence.
There are slaves in this world… diluting the meaning of the word to include Uber drivers does not help them.
- belter 4y agoThat is not the argument. The argument is that Uber business model is more cost-effective than Slavery. (And without trying to sound insensitive here)...the "slave owner" still bears the costs of his "slaves".
- yywwbbn 4y agoBut it’s still not profitable, unlike slavery which was extremely profitable. So how can it be more effective?
- belter 4y ago"Slave owners" did not have high AWS bills, Stock Based compensation, Sales and Marketing and so on... "Uber Technologies Operating Expenses 2017-2021 | UBER" https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UBER/uber-technologies/operating-expenses#:~:text=Uber%20Technologies%20annual%20operating%20expenses,a%2012.1%25%20increase%20from%202017 https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UBER/uber-technolo.... "Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021" https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2022/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2021/ https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...