Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam

Re:Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam by scarface_74 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:24AM (#36774001)

My wife and I don’t have cars and we travel all over the US “nomadding”. It’s a great thing no matter where we are, we can just take Uber from place A to place B anytime day or night.

I speak a little Spanish. But I couldn’t imagine trying to get around Los Cabos, Mexico for three weeks without Uber.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam by detourdog on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:48AM (#36774411)

I liked to see you try to Uber in Western Mass.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam by ghaff on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:12PM (#36774811)

Yeah, it's certainly not everywhere. My brother has a house near a midsize (by Maine standards) city and I could not get an Uber or Lyft when my car broke down last summer and others told me that was normal. (Not that cabs are great either.)

And they're pretty thin around where I live 50 miles outside of Boston.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam by scarface_74 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:34PM (#36775250)

So far, we’ve only done larger cities/metros

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Re:Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam by detourdog on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:20AM (#36784625)

During the summer we have newspaper stories of people coming from NYC for the weekend and having their minds blown when they try to Uber.

I did see someone post on frontporchforum post that there were now a driver for either Lyft or Uber.

Your confidence in the uberness of Uber I thought should be broaden.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam by scarface_74 on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:51AM (#36812756)

Well there was the one time I took Uber to the outskirts of Puerto Rico to go horseback riding and there was no service to get home and I ended up paying $200 to get back to San Juan to taxi service.

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