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Re:You Drink, Uber Drives – For Free by jawns on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @03:12PM (#9383365)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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Re:You Drink, Uber Drives – For Free by closetnerd on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @05:52PM (#9384444)
> A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result

It hasn't had ANY undesirable results. Calling it perverse at this point in time is definitely a pessimistic take on Uber's play here.

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