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"Keep it in check"

By allowing it to willfully break laws in dozens of countries, contributing to lowering standards of living and high stress at work, tracking users at all times, having a hostile workplace, then becoming the most important provider of such services in the world?

Yeah, that's totally capitalism doing its work, and not the painfully obvious "throw VC money at it until it works" scheme, right

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Lowering standards of living? Lolwhat?

As a previous comment pointed out, Uber created a consumer surplus of almost $7 billion in 2015 alone.