That’s what made it good. Just because it’s not sustainable doesn’t mean it’s bad for the users. It’s the opposite. The problem is people who decided to hitch their lives on the app and be an Uber driver as a career. That was obviously not sustainable. And now people complain that it’s not profitable anymore. Time to move on.
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kpw@kbin.social 7 months agoYeah, but they only could provide that by burning a LOT of money in order to gain a monopoly and then squeeze everyone dry. Uber has always been a venture capital sham: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/11/bezzlers-gonna-bezzle/
shasta@lemm.ee 7 months ago
eskimofry@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re giving a descriptive explanation for a normative debate… or whatever is the one with the correct meaning.
dreamer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What I find fucked up in the first place, is how these business models don’t even work in the first place. Like why in the hell am I spending so much on a trip and it’s not even profitable in the first place.
anlumo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Startup culture isn’t the most efficient. For example, back when Twitter still existed their iOS team had more than 100 people. I was an iOS developer back then, and I could easily have made a similar product alone (just the client, not the server). I don’t think that Tweetbot had more than one developer, and they produced much higher quality than that Twitter team.