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danaw
58 days ago
try it again while calculating infrastructure and road costs for 262mm uber/lyft rides
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xnx
58 days ago
Because roads are a shared resource used by everyone (even non car owners) Uber/Lyft's portion is small and covered by taxes they already pay.
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hnav
58 days ago
The point is that the cost of the road infrastructure isn't accounted for, not to mention the externality of having a half a million cars on the road to move 750k people. Rideshare is slipstreaming in the subsidized flow of cars.
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