Re:“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering comp...
by xsmasher on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @12:29PM
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That sounds remarkably like the broken window fallacy.
What does your company do with that extra money now? Throw it in a barrel and burn it?
Re:“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering comp...
by dllthomas on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:48PM
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What are Uber and passengers going to do with the extra money? In both cases, we see the loss of specific jobs and (at least) short term pain for the people who were relying on them.
Re:“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering comp...
by xsmasher on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @12:23AM
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Right; short term pain while the money is redistributed to somewhere it can be of more efficient use. The parent made it sound like the loss of jobs was going to collapse the economy.
Re:“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering comp...
by dllthomas on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @05:36PM
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"Right; short term pain while the money is redistributed to somewhere it can be of more efficient use."
Right. Which isn't to say we shouldn't be considering it. The short term matters - we spend a lot of time there.
"The parent made it sound like the loss of jobs was going to collapse the economy."
Well, there's nothing to say the money is redistributed to labor, and it's hard to run a consumer economy when only a few people have any money to pay for anything. That said, I don't really get that vibe from the parent comment in the first place...
No question about that. As someone who back in the day paid thousands for business software that is now almost always free, money went from our company to a company that had employees, sales people, programmers who made a living off the software that was being offered. Not to mention obviously the people that we didn't need anymore as a result of that software. (Bookeepers, anyone?)