[chronic940]

Net impact on society: You and all your friends use UberPool to get around San Francisco for a few bucks one way. No more car insurance or car lease payments for 24 year olds. Now the Uber riders can afford their medical bills or college tuition. Uber is bad, right?

Very few people care about the direct negative externalities you mentioned, including here in HN.

[will_brown]

The thread is about workers' (criminal) liability for the actions they take at the direction of the company they work for....there is literally an entire thread about it for a post that made it to the front page, so I think it's at least of interest to HN, I'm not even sure what your comment is about.

[yebyen]

I never saw that post, so you could link to it. Not sending a downvote, but I would... (citation needed, (criminal))

Nobody should have criminal liability for actions they took on the direction of their employer, while the employer gets away without consequence. Otherwise we should all get law degrees for free.

[yebyen]

Back up, you were talking about this thread weren't you...