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by branchless 3373 days ago
21st century capitalism: gaming the system rather than actual productivity improvements that make lives better.
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Ok, you can fault Uber for TONs of things. Moral, financial, ethical, political, legal, but one thing they did indeed do is provide "actual productivity improvements that make lives better".

I am an Uber/Lyft user and my life has been drastically improved!

Speak for yourself. Uber has for me been a service superior to what taxi companies offer in literally every way possible.
Of course they are, they have less overheads because they game the system.