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> It is economically sound, but it's not ethical. In this case on the one hand you have people desperately trying to leave a place, and on the other hand you h
by josu 12y ago
> It is economically sound, but it's not ethical.
In this case on the one hand you have people desperately trying to leave a place, and on the other hand you have drivers sitting at home not wanting to risk their lives for $x/mile.
When Uber jacks up prices, you are creating incentives for those drivers to get out of their homes and start allowing people to desperately leave the places where they don't want to be in.
Highers prices>More drivers>More people leaving the dangerous places
There is nothing ethically wrong with it. I could even argue that the unethical thing would be not to jack up prices, since this would put less cars on the streets and consequently less people would be "rescued".
- vacri 12y agos/uber/food and s/sydney cbd/famine area "I could argue that jacking up the prices for food in a starving area is ethical, since it would encourage diversion of food from other areas, bringing in merchants who would otherwise not visit" Or maybe ethics is a little broader than just economic invisible-hand logic?
- youWontLikeThis 12y agoAnd if you cannot afford to pay, here is a well deserved bullet for your head.