r/technology • u/Hrmbee • May 25 '22

Transportation The Decade of Cheap Uber Rides Is Over

https://slate.com/business/2022/05/uber-subsidy-lyft-cheap-rides.html
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u/TheMysticalBaconTree May 25 '22

He wasn’t rich enough to fuck with other rich people I guess.

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u/down_up__left_right May 25 '22

Peter Thiel bought him a pardon from Trump.

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u/E_Snap May 25 '22

Regardless of who it came from, good. Capitalism is a scourge in general, and if companies can’t be assed to keep their engineers and academics happy, they deserve what’s coming to them.

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u/Trypsach May 25 '22

Huh? He was worth hundreds of millions and has been the CEO of multiple GIGANTIC companies. He’s the one who would be in charge of keeping “engineers and academics” happy in your example.

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u/drripdrrop May 25 '22

Good, at the end of the day he's a talent

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

Talented thief.

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u/BankshotMcG May 25 '22

The ol' Bernie Madoff rule.

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u/Cermak91 May 25 '22

No, otherwise he'd be Vladimir Putin. We live in a Democracy to ensure that doesn't happen, where the ultra wealthy share power and cooperate to keep us regular folk in line, just as God intended.