Time and time again, Uber has shown that undercutting their competitors in pricing is not done through smart technology or better business models, but by avoiding regulations and getting away with inhumane wages.
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Isn't this just yet another example that our system is a total failure that requires constant tweaking / intervention?
Imagine someone here writing a post about a program to perform a mathematical operation. It gives the wrong answer. It takes ages to run also. But if you attach gdb, set a breakpoint and increment the necessary variables you can get the right answer.
They'd be laughed out of town.
Won't surprise me if you can find this on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Also, on a related note, there's enough jobs in IT which are already low wage as it is.