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by wasabi991011 1 day ago
Please look up Uber's business practices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Uber
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As opposed to taxi companies, who are famously efficient, honest, and not creeps.
Just because Uber made a billion dollars by outcompeting terrible companies doesn't mean that Uber isn't also a terrible company. A crime lord is still a crime lord even if he displaced other, smaller, crime lords in getting his place.
Whataboutism is usually not a great defense.
I apologize for derailing this conversation about whether or not Uber is better than taxi companies by bringing up irrelevant topics like whether or not Uber is better than taxi companies.