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...
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...