

Perhaps, or perhaps it’s the exact opposite and a sign of hubris. How many drivers have leased or purchased cars at Über’s initial rate only to find themselves underwater? I’m not trying to be pedantic but would urge caution when drawing a link between nice, shiny things and economic health.
I agree with you fully even though I am a tech geek. I don’t think it’s right for a technology to upset an industry that has had to go through regulations and licensing by simply bypassing these regulations. There are probably other examples where technologies have done so in beneficial ways but to me what UBER is doing is plain wrong.
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Tim, this is a great article. To further strengthen your argument you might consider the way that FedEx and UPS are slaughtering the US Postal Service, in large measure through the use of technology. In this case the US Gov. has even subsidized the USPS for decades and despite…
If you want to know what privilege is, reread what you just wrote. I would gladly walk up and down Connecticut Street every day to be able to live in Potrero Hill. I’d gleefully wait thirty minutes for a cab if I could afford to live in downtown San Francisco. Of course, if I were fortunate enough to live in the city, I wouldn’t have to do either of…
Evan, am I wrong in that you’re asking them these questions with your fingers, in their eyes, on a rating system that can negatively affect them? Like with tipping (possibly on the way out), there’s an odd asymmetry there that can sometimes make friendliness false.