I think he would be considered more of a tool.
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Is that some sort of invitation?
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I was reminded of the Mitfahrzentrale / Ridesharing which was the standard way to get around Germany for young people in the 90s. It was glorified hitchhiking. You paid your share of the fuel and got a ride. It was well organised efficient and had sharing at its core. The company locating the rides received a small fee to keep the infrastructure running.
Über has absolutely nothing to do with sharing and everything to do with exploitation. As a central London resident, along with all the horrendous labour issues the destructive effect uber has on public transport is a particular bug bear of mine.
a) the roads are congested with drivers circling aimlessly around, following some kind of magical line on their screen. They are utterly clueless in re to the area and are a danger to pedestrians and other drivers.
b) if all those people jumping in and out of übers would be using buses we might actually have a functioning bus system especially at night! It is absolutely beyond me why using über is in any way more virtuous than running you own car.
I am rather curious.
EDIT because I still know better what I want to write than the evil force that is Autocorrect. Exploitation is just in no universe to be replaced by exploration. I write in three languages and it seems that machine learning is just not made for that.
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I’ll invite anyone who is interested, but I won’t post it publicly.
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It’s so simple, many people don’t see it.
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To be effective, the legislature must have some interest in protecting the population from corporate predation.
This is not a motive that appears to be common on either side of US politics.
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I think they call it “the sharing economy” because the business model goes like:
- Find something that people currently share outside of capitalism
- Build a technological system to make the thing profitable, creating an economy
- Suck money out of that economy without doing any work
- Nobody shares that thing anymore, but hey, sharing is for chumps
Works for car rides, parking spaces, spare bedrooms, home cooked meals, really anything of value that is exchanged between people solely on the basis of their shared humanity, rather than the imperatives of the free market.
So it is building an economy out of sharing, but sharing is the first casualty of the process.
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And yet it’s illegal for you to count cards.
Seriously? “Against casino rules” I can believe, but how do you outlaw thinking about a logic problem?
Screwball comedy?
Uh, maybe not, given recent events. Screwball tragedy as a new genre, anyone?
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Did you mean “exploitation”?
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Sharing economy => Taking economy
Job creators => Labor exploiters
Tax breaks => Wealth subsidies
Freedom => Suffering
Financial Innovation => Gambling/Tax dodging
Security => Xenophobia
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Screw-you-ball?
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I’m interested, would love to know more!
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No, it’s not.
The casino can kick you out for whatever reason they want but you can’t be arrested for counting cards. The casino doesn’t even need to prove you are counting cards. It’s there house, their rules.
yes, bloody auto correct continuously rewrites my sentences. will correct,
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Right. And it’s Uber’s house. Uber’s rules. And this post is about “asymmetries of information and power.”
Plus “Card counting is not illegal under federal, state, or local laws in the United States provided that no external card counting device or person assists the player in counting cards. Still, casinos object to the practice, and try to prevent it, banning players believed to be counters.” So apparently it’s not just against house rules, it’s also illegal if you (as Uber does) use computers to help you gather and analyze your data.
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