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So basically, you’re saying that “most places” had uncorrupt, put-upon taxi industries who simply cannot survive against Uber because Uber is anti-competitive,
by timr 4mo ago
So basically, you’re saying that “most places” had uncorrupt, put-upon taxi industries who simply cannot survive against Uber because Uber is anti-competitive, and it has nothing at all to do with delivering a better product?
Yeah, I don’t believe you. It sounds like you’re making a just-so rationalization for why taxis are good and Uber is bad.
In pretty much any mature taxi market Uber is as expensive (if not more expensive!) than the conventional alternative. And yet Uber survives.
- inigyou 4mo agoHave you ever met an Uber driver who makes decent money? Honest jobs should be compensated with honest money, not starvation wages.
- nunez 4mo agoBlack drivers used to make pretty good money many years ago, but Uber + market externalities redesigned their systems to "fix" that (mostly through decreasing payouts and high car rental costs) Most of the drivers providing that service split their time between Uber, Lyft and traditional corporate black car service. Lots of posts on this topic in the UberDrivers subreddit.
- inigyou 4mo agoYou see that whenever there is value, above starvation wages, flowing to laborers, capitalists see that as a problem and reduce it. Does this seem sustainable?
- irishcoffee 4mo agoIt’s really interesting how you’ve couched the concept of price discovery.
- inigyou 4mo agoSomehow only laborers get price discovered. Amazon hasn't got price discovered, not has Google, in decades. Weird. It's almost like Econ 101 isn't the whole story.
- irishcoffee 4mo agoYou mean, maybe selling shitty cheap chinese plastic to the lowest bidder has fucked with price discovery? I agree!
- satvikpendem 4mo agoYes, many in fact.
- timr 4mo agoYes, many, in fact. But more importantly, nobody is making drivers take these jobs. The restated version of your comment is simply “I think drivers should get paid more,” which is fine, but not an argument. Everyone who has ever had a job thinks the same thing.