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I know a bunch of people who are happy Uber drivers as they couldn’t afford becoming regular taxi drivers. Do you often point out to your Uber divers that they’
by dsco 4y ago
I know a bunch of people who are happy Uber drivers as they couldn’t afford becoming regular taxi drivers. Do you often point out to your Uber divers that they’re lower class and being preyed on? How do they take it?
- mavu 4y agoyou can tell yourself that all day long if it makes you feel better. In Europe, uber is exploiting the most vulnerable in our societies, and profiting of the harm they do to people and communities. Not to mention, breaking laws, endangering passengers, using outright evil methods to keep their workers money.
- yladiz 4y agoSome of the most vulnerable are the homeless and mentally disabled. How is Uber exploiting them?
- harvey9 4y agoThe phrase 'most vulnerable' is terribly overused, but your comment is still disingenuous.
- ipaddr 4y agoThese are not fair comments because everything you say the taxi industry it replaced is guilt of and closing the market. Uber puts new cars on the road and opens the industry to those who are locked out.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoSuppose taxi industry is guilty of murder, does that mean I can now commit murder too?
- kspacewalk2 4y agoIf it gets replaced by a strictly less murderous alternative, this alternative is preferable.
- stale2002 4y agoNo, but if a taxi industry is murdering people, and also helped create laws that prevent competitors from entering the market, I think it is OK to get around the laws that prevent competitors from competing with the taxi murder mafia.
- ambrozk 4y agoIn this metaphor, "murder" stands for "operating a taxi service without the approval of the existing taxi services."
- RajT88 4y agoMy brother in law is a mechanic. He sees a lot of drivers who have a 3 year old car with 200k miles on them and basically a new car worth of repairs needed. I also get a lot of happy drivers saying "this is my first day / week". I see a lot of crazy driving too. All in all, it seems like there is a learning curve to being a profitable Uber driver. It is not necessarily easy to accomplish. The ones who seem to anecdotally do best by it are the folks supplementing income by opportunistically taking fares here and there.
- remflight 4y agoI love people who somehow think that taxi industry is filled with clean, perfectly maintained cars, fairly paid workers with great benefits and just the epitome of great citizens without any corruption.
- RajT88 4y agoDo you think I am one of those? If so, why?
- andybak 4y agoI see lots of people here from different countries describing very different experiences and wondering why they don't align.
- ambrozk 4y agoIt's insane. Thank God for tech companies for disrupting one of the worst industries on the planet. Uber and Lyft are, IMO, some of the best examples of the virtuous nature of "move fast & break things" as a business philosophy.
- Nursie 4y agoUber are worse where I live. They cancel on you, they accept the fare and then just screw around for 20 minutes until you cancel, then if you try to rebook the price has magically gone up. At most times of day they are more expensive than the normal cab firms. This all seems to come down to the rates of pay available to drivers getting worse, presumably as the VC money runs out. Thankfully the old cab firms have managed to cling on in the face of years of massive market distortion, and are still there to pick up the slack.
- winternett 4y agoA lot of people eat peanuts, but a handful of people die from them. Should all people be made to eat peanut butter? Uber is only a good company if it improves, yet somehow there is a never ending online narrative that "It's treating me well, so it's great for the world!". That's not normal, it's deception.