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Re:The Economics of UberX in NYC by harryh on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @12:29PM (#8557763)
Why do some people have better choices than others in life? In particular for people that only have bad choices do we, as a society, bare some of the responsibility for that? Is it a sign that we've done something wrong?

To be clear, I don't have all the answers to these questions, but they are the questions that I ask myself when issues like this come up.

Re:The Economics of UberX in NYC by wdewind on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:04PM (#8559036)
You're making it this big societal argument. I agree that what you are talking about makes sense. It's why we don't allow child labor, for instance.

I'm questioning whether Uber is one of those situations. I don't think you're making it clear that it is, so much as that those situations exist. Which I don't contest.

Re:The Economics of UberX in NYC by harryh on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:02PM (#8559604)
To what degree do Uber's business practices create (or at least perpetuate) those situations? To what degree are they part of a giant societal machine that creates or perpetuates those situations?