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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by tatterdemalion on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:38AM (#13528308)
Its true, in many of the points for which Uber is criticized (including this), Lyft is no better. One might even go as far as to say something along the lines of "there is no ethical consumption under capitailism."

But the point of a boycott isn't to purify one's own ethics, but to get the producer of the boycotted product to change their behavior. To this end it is more productive to focus on the market leader, or the most egregious offender, or some other 'tall poppy' of impropriety, than to try to boycott all actors you believe are unethical.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by azinman2 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:49AM (#13528585)
Lyft donated 1M to the ACLU. That's pretty different about taking action.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by Zach_the_Lizard on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:51AM (#13529765)
And Uber is spending $3 million on legal services for their drivers.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by craigching on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:12AM (#13530636)
I don't want to take sides, but how is spending $3 million to compensate their own drivers vs. $1 million going to the ACLU which benefits people other than Lyft's "employees" in any way equal?
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by FeepingCreature on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:19AM (#13531863)
Isn't what Uber has done better? At least for Uber drivers. They're standing by the people they're benefiting from, instead of an undirected donation.

An analogy: a company has an oil spill, so they donate to Greenpeace.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by azinman2 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:21PM (#13536867)
It's clearly not undirected -- it's explicitly to fight in court the executive order as unconstitutional, which then applies to the entire US and not just their own tiny ecosystem.

Further, 3mil to their own drivers (which I haven't heard about but whatever) doesn't change US law -- so if their driver is booted out of the country, a few thousand dollars ain't much if you're thrown into a civil war or worse.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by ZenoArrow on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:56AM (#13528622)
>"there is no ethical consumption under capitailism."

Imagine there was a competitor to Uber and Lyft that was owned by the drivers themselves in the form of a cooperative, so that any new drivers would have equal say in the direction the service took. Would that not be more ethical than Uber and Lyft?

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by wowca on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:34AM (#13528776)
But that wouldn't be organized as a capitalist company then.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by willyt on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:10AM (#13529585)
Who cares? John Lewis is a partnership of all 90,000 employees and they are probably the most successful supermarket and department store chain in Britain. They dominate high end food and homeware sales.

http://www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/information-about...

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by adrienne on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:13PM (#13576059)
...sure it would? Cooperatives of various sorts are a time-tested method of corporate organization, and plenty of them exist as corporations and make money in capitalist systems.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by tempodox on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:57AM (#13528890)
How do you know it's more ethical before knowing the actual decisions made?
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by ZenoArrow on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:29AM (#13530777)
Depends on your definition of ethics, but it's very likely to be more democratically run and have smaller wage inequality.
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