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Re:Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice by traskjd on Friday August 28, 2015 @07:39PM (#10138363)
Arguably Uber was nice to the drivers when it was a start up. Frequently drivers commented they received more money than working as taxi drivers.

Uber is now most certainly not a start up, and now that it has power it's starting to exert that power on those "down the line", as you say.

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Re:Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice by chmike on Saturday August 29, 2015 @12:53AM (#10139116)
It could be that the new people in charge are introducing the shift in policy. It may give the impression to earn more, but as PG shows, this is a false impression as long as growth is steady. Like PG I also think that it hurts gowth.
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