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I disagree. When you give people strong economic incentives to ignore morality, some people will. Not all, but enough to make a hash of things. In any populatio
by gtowey 8mo ago
I disagree. When you give people strong economic incentives to ignore morality, some people will. Not all, but enough to make a hash of things. In any population there will be some people who will do things they know are wrong just to get ahead.
For Airbnb landlords I'm sure the thought process goes like " I'm just one person so I can't be having enough of an impact to be a problem. And besides, I need the money." But then enough people pile on and in aggregate they ruin the local housing market. But nobody thinks that they themselves are culpable
- twoodfin 8mo agoI’m struggling to understand the moral character of taxi service regulatory capture and monopolization.
- tstenner 8mo agoYour taxi crashes because the driver skipped brake maintenance and his insurance doesn't reimburse you for your hospital costs because commercial transportation isn't covered. Sure would be nice to have some minimum requirements for taxis.
- twoodfin 8mo agoIf maintenance schedules and insurance regulations are “moral” issues, what isn’t?
- gtowey 8mo agoThe moral issue is when the executives at Uber know with certainty that their driver compensation and incentives push drivers to neglect required maintenance on their vehicles. Much in the same way tobacco companies knew for a long time how addictive and harmful smoking was. And how Facebook knows they let their advertisers scam their users, and the way social media was pushing teen suicides higher. They knew and kept pushing policies which made the problem worse. All so they could collect bigger compensation packages.
- tekne 8mo agoEh… there’s a point to be made about “enforced low risk tolerance” being a societal issue. Lead in gasoline is bad, but in general I think individuals are perfectly capable of determining whether they are willing to risk a taxi ride.
- gtowey 8mo agoWould they risk a taxi ride if they knew that Uber failed to properly background check a driver, who later kidnapped and raped one of his passengers, and Uber's response was to hire private investigators to dig up personal information on the victim in an attempt to discredit her? [1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42291495 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42291495