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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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