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Re:End of the line for Uber? by thebigman433 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:38PM (#28134121)
> why doesn't that apply to taxis? Taxis make money.

Wouldnt it "just" be because of the massive overhead that Uber has with the software engineers, support staff, execs, etc?

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Re:End of the line for Uber? by tracedddd on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:40PM (#28134170)
To be honest that’s all self inflicted. It may be painful to downsize to a sustainable model but these aren’t hard costs - at least not to the extent they exist now.
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Re:End of the line for Uber? by Daishiman on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:54PM (#28134371)
The question is whether a sustainable model's marginal utility over the regular old taxi business is sufficiently large to justify the entire endeavor.
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