This article has some fantastic examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning For example: >

This article has some fantastic examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning For example: > under the guise of innovation and progress, companies are stripping away worker protections, pushing down wages, and flouting government regulations Re: wages, when Uber shared this data (http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-uber-drivers-really-make-2014-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-uber-drivers-r...) it looked like the average driver made more not less, though the data does come directly from Uber so it should be taken with a grain of salt. Re: flouting government protections and worker protections (and ignoring that these are one and the same), I'd really like to know what specifically the assumed drawback is... > you don’t become worth $40 billion by sharing and caring. You become worth $40 billion by ripping off the people who work for you. This is obviously false -- the sheer number of startups and companies that die by ripping off (and hence pissing off) their employees and customers is staggering. In the case of Uber, the main source of complaints is not the drivers or customers... it's Uber's competition, such as the Taxi coops this article describes in glowing terms. (#include the french riots) The only driver complaints I'm aware of basically stem from the interest misalignment caused by Uber's taking a 20% commission from drivers rather than X% after estimated driver expenses. This led to the recent price cuts looking a whole lot better to Uber (who directly profited from the increased usage) than it did to the drivers (who now have a much lower profit-per-faire)... but given that driver income is still effectively 2x the minimum wage I still have a hard time considering this "evil" in any traditional sense. > The efficiency gains of connecting workers to customers via the internet applications will drive down prices and thus incomes, while the new profits created will all get sucked up by the small group of Silicon Valley companies that created the platforms, along with their shareholders. AND consumers (who collectively are profiting the most here). For example, eBay did make the founders wealthy, but it's ludicrous to claim they somehow sucked all the wealth away from everyone else. Business isn't zero sum, and easy access to cheap used electronics (or access to ubiquitous high quality low cost rides) is being ignored in this analysis. Okay, I think that's all I can take. I hope no one takes OP seriously.