I think the impact of all the bad PR has a limited reach outside of tech circles. Among my friends no-one has even heard about any of this and Uber is more popular than ever (especially UberEats).
The bad PR within tech circles is damage enough, given that to grow as a tech company, Uber needs to compete with other tech companies with regards to hiring new talent, as well as retaining existing talent.
Same here. In my town people still feel somewhat more advanced and 'cool' calling Uber instead of taxi. Funny thing is, that most of them are left wing 'justice warrior'/hipster type. I chuckle every time I see this act of irony.
The real irony is that your smug sense of superiority is exactly what the left always gets accused of.
Perhaps if you enlighten them, you'd help people make more informed decisions. And maybe they'd care about the problems. As it is, smugly chuckling at ignorance is rather silly. If they don't know, it isn't irony.
I guess the irony is that they "ought to know", given that OP associates "leftism" and hipsterism (social warriority?) with rudimentary eagerness to be up to date on current "issues".
Ignorance does seem to be the willful plight of the further-leaning left at the moment, so I have to somewhat agree with him. But I get your point.
Willful ignorance is endemic in America these days. I'm rather curious what specifically the further left-leaning segment of the population is willfully ignorant of at the moment. Care to share?