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The only reason Uber exists to begin with is because they:

- have unlimited VC money (35 billion in operational losses over 10 years)

- offload things like medical insurance, depreciation, equipment costs etc. onto people who work for them

- screw over restaurants

I can't see how it's a net benefit

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Uber is a terrible company, yes. Always has been.

That's true for basically all the "gig economy" apps, which are just enormous money sinks which fuck over (disrupt, according to their propaganda) whatever market they enter and then either collapse leaving a rotting corpse where a functional market used to exist or become monopolists and then proceed to level the market in order to milk it up as much as possible. And then they collapse anyway.

If we had any kind of sense, as a society, this shit would have been banned years ago.

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