Why do these stories about Uber permeate? Throughout history, things evolve and get disrupted. Did we see stories like this about VCR makers? Clock radios? Weird.
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I see what you’re trying to say but consider that Uber’s model is to kill competition on the backs on venture capitalists and investors, create a monopoly, then raise prices to turn a profit. Or that cab drivers have no alternatives.
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That's...business.
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It’s anti-competitive and anti-market. Uber isn’t providing some truly better product for anyone, they’re just backed up by fake money. It’s beyond risky to the point of being damaging. They’re not really “disrupting” anything.
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Well, unless you count the market for drivers. Technologically speaking, they have nothing all that special.
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Actually, I‘m f/ the Bronx and Uber and other ride-hailing apps have made cabs accessible here in a way they weren’t before. Same in other outer boroughs. Taxi system previously treated poorer/more minority-populated areas like 2nd class.
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Not saying there aren’t concerns about it, but don’t think it’s fair to say it hasn’t provided a better product for anyone.
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A ride JFK-Manhattan in a dirty old yellow cab min $60, if snowing u put your luggage inside trunk yourself, take it out as well. ride is horrible. In uber we have option to share cost, car brand new and comfortable, I can charge my phone, get water luggage in & out by driver
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Did cell phones end beepers? did email end fax machines? will electric cars end gas? technology changes. he didn't have to die, just adapt. it's sad he felt he nad to do that. if people didn't like uber they'd not use it. Taxis don't have apps to get a car in 3 min or less.
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Yooo it’s the city’s fault for tight regulations on yellow taxis then allowing Uber to come in with nothing. At its peak a taxi medallion cost over $1 million dollars. You can get started with Uber for less than $500..
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Disruption hits every industry. While this person's story is heartbreaking, the same thing happened to automobile factory workers previously. Solution is not to say no to tech disruptions,but to help people to acquire new skills/ go to school - not give tax breaks to billionaires
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So if everybody goes to school, who will drive the taxis? Could we try regulating health and safety, worker protection, and minimum wages for the new 'gig' economy first?
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IMHO, Uber is pursuing self driving cars. It is going to be a matter of time before cars will be driven by computers. Same with other services like restaurants (already happening at Panera or Starbucks). There are a lot of opportunities 1/2
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In STEM fields. Trump & his voters are pissed off with Asian immigrants getting high paying jobs, reality is that there are not a lot of Americans with the required skill sets (check out WSJ article recently). Govt needs to help ppl to get these skills through tax breaks 2/2
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Self-driving cars are 15-20yrs out, by expert estimates. Not everybody can, should do STEM. Hard to use a tax break if you don't make any money anyway. I agree there are structural economic issues here around tech transformation, but the answer isn't 'everybody learn node.js'
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Not asking everyone to code.. STEM doesn't mean coding alone. We can resist all we want. But a lot of our jobs won't exist in 10-15 years. Unless we learn new skills, we are going to be left behind. BTW, health Care is already seeing disruption. Docs replaced by AI is a thing now
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Is that AI just a verbal fulltext search against WebMD? (I'm kidding. Mostly. But. A lot of the AI-is-amazing hype is just that at this point... hype.)
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Actually, no. This is radiologists who are being replaced by NLP and ML. It is emerging that computers are better at recognizing patterns and matching them (who'd have thunk it?
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Yellow cabs are too expensive, and I instead take Uber. The yellow cabs need to be able to compete with the new market.
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One must adapt, time doesn't stand still for anyone. I am getting my mom to take computer courses so she won't get left behind. Old school skills aren't enough any more.
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