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Re:Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India... by isoskeles on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:08PM (#26173660)
Rent-seeking means, roughly, trying to extract wealth without creating any wealth.

Creating and maintaining software that connects a person with a device to a driver with a device and routes them from point A (driver) => A' (person) => B (destination) isn't some trivial nothing that you can just rent-seek into existence. I believe 'wealth' was added to the economy that did not previously exist when people had to deal with hailing cab drivers, not have a map of their route, and not know an approximation of their fare ahead of time.

Re:Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:13PM (#26173702)
And payment processing.

Remember the sign on cabs that said they accept all major cards, only to find out the "card reader doesn't work?".

Re:Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India... by omginternets on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:03PM (#26231869)
>Remember the sign on cabs that said they accept all major cards, only to find out the "card reader doesn't work?".

Do I?! It's still commonplace! I have lost every ounce of sympathy I ever held for taxi drivers.