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Uber is an interesting example to me because where I live, it really did revolutionize taxi service. They used to not take credit cards and you used to have to
by atribecalledqst 3y ago
Uber is an interesting example to me because where I live, it really did revolutionize taxi service. They used to not take credit cards and you used to have to fight for them at the end of the night when bars closed. Plus taxis were usually much less clean than an Uber car. That industry badly needed to be disrupted to make it less of a shitty experience.
On the other hand, I'm sympathetic to people losing their livelihoods because of Uber and am generally opposed to the 'giggification' of everything that Uber seems to have ushered in. It feels like there was a better way to handle the innovation.
- appplication 3y agoI agree. I think, in general, Uber was a good thing. Cab companies really were one of those shitty monopolies that treated their customers poorly because they had no pressure to innovate or even listen to their customers much at all. The main issues with Uber are not that it’s a gig economy job, it’s that it externalizes much of the costs to drivers in ways that are difficult for the average driver to amortize. Beyond that, it can be something of a trap. It requires very little skill to drive, and there is essentially no upward mobility or ability to upskill through continued labor. But that is not unique to Uber.