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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by xster on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:06PM (#16710113)
We need a startup that uses the same market forces to slowly chip away from the capitalists.

i.e. a collective labour and legal assistance group that has economy of scale and/or ML that's cheap enough for everyone and uses its userbase to collectively punish companies that uses belligerent gamifications against its customers by automating bill payments and underpaying every single bill by a small amount that makes it financially penalizing to resort to collection agencies etc.

A consumer protection equivalent of unions + zombie botnets.

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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by justaguyhere on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:22PM (#16710250)
Nothing will change until people shop responsibly and not give their money to shitty companies. But for that to happen, we need reliable info on what places to avoid (how do I know if a particular place is owned by walmart, koch or whoever I want to avoid?).
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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by confounded on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:28PM (#16710316)
Wikipedia?
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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by nroets on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:42PM (#16712948)
Cooperatives is the best thing you will get. (A company owned by its clients).

But clients around generally clueless how to run businesses. So they either don't excersize their voting rights or they vote for incompetent managers.

One solution is cooperatives that have no operational assets and outsource everything. Then they still have bulk buying power.

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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by xster on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:54PM (#16718805)
Not to be flippant but that last option almost sounds like... a democratic government that regulates the market :)
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