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Re:In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares by justinclift on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:50PM (#13767585)
Out of curiosity, what's his involvement with "monopolistic dumping scheme"?

Looking through his Wikipedia (ok, not a fantastic reference source ;) ) entry, there doesn't seem to be any mention of involvement (employment/directorships/etc) with financial institutions.

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Re:In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares by alphonsegaston on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:22PM (#13767917)
Uber's business model is to create a monopoly on a variety of transportation services using VC cash to dump the market, drive out their competitors, and then jack up prices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

Here's the info about their subprime lending:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/3/11852940/uber-subprime-auto...

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Re:In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares by justinclift on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @06:44PM (#13769857)
Interesting, thanks. :)
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