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Here in tech bro world we have so many innovations for you! Why not try our: - Imaginary scam money (in 17,382 flavors, including eyeballs)! - Expensive unreg
by pierat 3y ago
Here in tech bro world we have so many innovations for you! Why not try our:
- Imaginary scam money (in 17,382 flavors, including eyeballs)!
- Expensive unregulated taxi!
- Expensive unregulated hotel!
- Picture of monkey (formerly valuable)!
- Imaginary restaurant that serves bad food!
- Expensive unregulated television!
- Another picture of monkey (never valuable)!
- Twitter but it sucks now!
- The news but it also sucks and steals your personal information!
Plus, try our greatest achievement yet:
- Expensive unregulated scam concert tickets!
EDIT: the real trend with Silly-Con Valley is that every major venture is an adventure in removing regulations that We (collectively) bought with 10's of thousands of lives. And these VCs come through, and seek to destroy regulation for a pound of profit, and some scraps to others.
These services always start cheap since they are subsidized by VCs to buy growth and scale. It soon will change, and get worse and cost more, if not outright re-regulated out of existence.... For the same reasons why the regulation was there in the first place.
There's a few companies working on true innovations. But most SV is just remixes on "deregulation and illegality as a service"
- onetokeoverthe 3y ago[dead]
- ChadNauseam 3y ago> - Expensive unregulated taxi! > - Expensive unregulated hotel! > - Expensive unregulated television! All of these are better than the alternative, or people wouldn't use them
- pierat 3y agoGiven that Uber's only quarter in the black was the most recent, AND most of it was from capitalized assets, well, it's just a failing business, but scaled big! It's a common trope for VC's to fund, fund, fund for that sweet hockey stick growth. And they know that it takes money to make money. So yeah, the fact that these businesses have been better is because they were subsidized by VC'e to get you as a customer. Enshittification process is already well full in effect, and will get more expensive and worse But hey, Uber cashed out for the early Ponzi investors. Probably won't pan out past this point.
- TylerE 3y agoAnecdotally, amongst my peer group AirBnBing is waaaay down. Pricing is out of control (even more than hotels), and there's usually a long chore list AND expensive cleaning fee on top.
- dave_sullivan 3y agoIt was great in the beginning! But yes, it's gone down hill, I avoid now.
- tomp 3y agoTrue, but I buy AirBnB specifically for things that you can’t get in a hotel. An entire villa with pool in Tuscany. An apartment with a kitchen. A flat with the view of Acropolis in Athens (maybe you can get that in a hotel, but you can never be sure lest they rebook you to a different room.)
- TylerE 3y agoAt least in the US, those sort of places don't really exist, or if they do the pricing is outrageous (like $1000+/night). Suite/extended stay hotels with full kitchens are fairly common here, too.
- CamperBob2 3y agoAt least in the US, those sort of places don't really exist, or if they do the pricing is outrageous (like $1000+/night). Not true in the slightest. This place ( https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/48299044 https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/48299044 ) was an incredible bargain the last time I was in Scottsdale for a couple of weeks, even at $220/night + fees.
- TylerE 3y agoScottsdale is not Tuscany.
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- shlubbert 3y agoThey may have been better at one point, but at least in my social circle pretty much everybody has given up on AirBnB due to numerous bad experiences and constantly complains about content now being spread across a dozen streaming services.
- cognaitiv 3y agoI feel like the people who complain about Uber/Lyft from a service perspective never used taxis extensively. Living in Chicago (Lakeview) for years while traveling for work made me absolutely hate taxis. When scheduling, they would no-show at 5 in the morning causing missed flights. Rides from the airport would require standing in line many times over an hour, especially on a Thursday night. They all absolutely reeked of body odor. The drivers would consistently scam “card machine broken, cash only” or “I forgot to turn on the meter” and unless you threatened to report them, they would take advantage of passengers. Drivers were sketchy and rarely matched the credentials on the taxi medallion. I’ve also lived in areas where taxi service was essentially nonexistent. I wonder how many DUIs and related accidents have been prevented by ride share apps. Traveling abroad in Europe the apps work simply regardless of my command of the local language to explain my destination and keeps the drivers honest so they aren’t taking “the long way”. How is anyone supporting taxis as superior to this? There was absolutely no accountability. From an business model perspective, I would wager that eventually you could get this to a point of sustainability that doesn’t require armies of engineers and various support staff, a la Twitter. Just don’t try to say taxis were better.
- gardenhedge 3y agoSome taxis use apps which give all the same benefits plus any local regulations in place.
- dmd 3y agoShow me one taxi service anywhere in the world that did that before Uber forced them to to compete.
- gardenhedge 3y agoI won't because that is unrelated to what I said
- perardi 3y agoLiving in Chicago (Lakeview) for years while traveling for work made me absolutely hate taxis. Hello from up here in Edgewater. I realize there are huge problems with the finances and liabilities of Uber…but taxis before ride shares were a pure nightmare, from a UX perspective. Uber brought us… * Deterministic pricing (for the most part) * Flawless ubiquitous credit card transactions * The ability to point to a random location on a map and just magically have a car take you there I know Uber’s finances are shit…but you know what? I would gladly pay more, because you get a car right to your door that delivers you to an arbitrary location with nobody extorting you for extra physical cash.
- djaychela 3y agoThat's not a great argument. They may be different in some ways, but that doesn't mean better. I recently looked for airbnb in Cardiff for pycon UK. Many of them are more expensive than a hotel, with fewer facilities and less guarantee of service. Uber has never been better than cabs where I live. YT may offer more choice than the TV, but there's an awful lot of race to the bottom junk and VPN shilling on there.
- mrguyorama 3y agoIt had nothing to do with artificially low prices?
- heavyset_go 3y agoThese were all subsidized to be much cheaper or free than competitors for years.
- mvdtnz 3y agoSure if you ignore second order effects and externalities.
- AdamJacobMuller 3y ago> - Expensive unregulated television! > - Expensive unregulated scam concert tickets! What are these two?
- pierat 3y agoNetflix/Paramount/Max/Hulu/etc They sell a subscription to shows, and then remove or enshittify their service. It's the equivalent of shrinkflation, where you buy 10$ of something, and it's 80% the size of last week. Ticketmaster, and their new bot storefront.
- mrguyorama 3y agoImagine if campbells could pull soup out of the cans in your cupboard while talking about "licensing issues"
- jstarfish 3y agoHey, it works for Rockstar doing that with every Grand Theft Auto soundtrack.
- gumballindie 3y ago- Intellecual Property Theft There, I extended the list with the most recent addition to the pile.
- brunops 3y agoConcert ticket prices in the US just blew my mind. Never noticed that one.
- CamelCaseName 3y agoPeople forget how terrible the experience was prior to these companies, and when the industry changes, they point to incumbents forced to innovate as a way to say the tech companies were unnecessary. Taxis is the low hanging fruit, non-hotellike rentals is another, cable TV/DVD rentals is a third. However, I have no explanation for NFTs.
- Hoasi 3y ago> However, I have no explanation for NFTs. Simple. A multi-level-marketing scheme build on the free money/web3/crypto trend, successfully taking the existing art market speculative practices into the digital realm.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoOoh tell me more about “picture of monkey” I was looking for a place to invest my savings Sounds promising
- lucasyvas 3y agoOur industry rewards grifters and/or rent seekers much more than it does true innovation. The worthwhile innovation that does happen skirts all the rules and guns for illegal monopoly, wearing it as a badge of honor. Too twisted for my taste.
- soligern 3y agoUber is fantastic, much better than some street taxi you have to find and hail. AirBnB is the only way I can realistically find multi room houses to stay in on vacations, hotels don’t offer that and there aren’t resorts everywhere. Not sure what you’re referring to with the imaginary restaurant and unregulated television.
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- poulpy123 3y agoWhat are the restaurant, TV and concert stuff ?