I would ask you to point out in my response where I am protecting anything. I am decrying the destruction of things by underhanded means (subsidizing to make costs artificially low and payments to workers high) which is irresponsible and completely indicative of a business model that has no concern for externalities or contingencies for failure. 'Oh the business didn't work' is a terrible line when in the process of failing you destroyed an entire working system, even if that system did suck in a lot of ways.
It is great that you are proud of your work, but I hope that in your current and future endeavors you may be able to use your talents for something a bit better.
Nah, I really don't. I enjoy having discussions where I educate people.
It wasn't underhanded, not in the least bit. Defending the status quo monopoly that exploits its workers is really strange. Destroying entrenched rent-seeking monopolies is doing the world a great service. Uber has been a public company since 2019. The fact that it's a viable business is beyond question at this point.
Have you given any thought as to whether you might take the time and reevaluate your basic assumptions about this? Being a person who is always perceived as smarter than most everyone else can lead to some ways of viewing oneself and the world in a very skewed fashion. I personally found doing psilocybin to be helpful in breaking down the ego enough to gain some good perspective on myself.
First off, your opinions are completely meaningless to me.
> you helped destroy an established industry
LOL my other comment rings so true about how HN loves to bend over backwards to defend the taxi monopoly.
1) Taxi drivers were not employees they were independent contractors. 2) Taxi drivers had to pay for gas, rent the taxi, and clean the taxi at the end of their shift 3) Every shift they had to pay for the use of the car/medallion and they started the shift OWNING money. Once they earned enough to pay for the fees, they earned everything after that. If they had to end their shift early due to illness or family emergency, they LOST money for the day.
This is the "established industry" that you are protecting? I'm happy to be a part of dismantling this immoral monopoly that abused their workers. Uber drivers can turn on and off their apps whenever they want, they can work at Uber and Lyft at the same time, they can withdraw their earnings at the end of the shift, etc. They can stop working whenever they want and they can start working whenever they want. My time at Uber something I'm deeply proud of.