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Libertarian here. I love Uber and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I also am a fan of their business model -- once a few remaining bugs are worked
by DanielBMarkham 11y ago
Libertarian here. I love Uber and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I also am a fan of their business model -- once a few remaining bugs are worked out.
Having said that? Crap, what a freaking mess Uber is making of things. I have talked to more than one person who had an Uber driver tell them that the company continues to push very hard to control them. I guess Uber could make the case that this was in the best interest of the users.
Now that they're jacking their cut? With their actions they are creating the argument that folks will make for completely destroying the open market: major players squeezing poor drivers dry, quasi-legal and highly questionable policies that try to prevent drivers from going anywhere they'd like, using the commercial momentum of a large company to dictate to all other players in the space about how things should be. And that's not even getting into the problems with personnel. Look, I'm a fan. But this trajectory is not good.
Come on, guys. You can do better than this. If you continue kn this fashion, you're going to lose a lot of public support and goodwill.