Cheradenine Zakalwe on Nostr: It's easy (and valid) to dismiss the "disruption" of Uber, which "disrupted" taxis ...
It's easy (and valid) to dismiss the "disruption" of Uber, which "disrupted" taxis and transit by losing $31b worth of Saudi royal money in a bid to collapse the world's rival transportation system, while quietly promising its investors that it would someday have pricing power as a monopoly, and would attain profit through price-gouging and wage-theft.
Uber's disruption story was wreathed in bullshit: lies about the "independence" of its drivers, about the imminence of self-driving taxis, about the impact that replacing buses and subways with millions of circling, empty cars would have on traffic congestion. There were and are plenty of problems with traditional taxis and transit, but Uber magnified these problems, under cover of "disrupting" them away.— Cory Doctorow
Any time you hear some techbro talking big about "disrupting" an established service, business sector, or piece of infrastructure, remember that what they really mean is "wreck it in the hope of eventual profit".
Uber's disruption story was wreathed in bullshit: lies about the "independence" of its drivers, about the imminence of self-driving taxis, about the impact that replacing buses and subways with millions of circling, empty cars would have on traffic congestion. There were and are plenty of problems with traditional taxis and transit, but Uber magnified these problems, under cover of "disrupting" them away.— Cory Doctorow
Any time you hear some techbro talking big about "disrupting" an established service, business sector, or piece of infrastructure, remember that what they really mean is "wreck it in the hope of eventual profit".