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"Fuck You" Companies

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25 points warthog | 2 comments | 13 Oct 25 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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throwaway290 ◴[13 Oct 25 14:29 UTC] No.45568721[source]▶
> it removed the driver’s power to reject you. It made price transparent. It weaponized accountability through ratings.

Wow. I really doubt this person took many ubers. if this was written by a person of course

Anyone can get rejected by drivers. Just canceling or the worst is if the driver is hiding somewhere next block and not moving, waiting for you to cancel. It's better when a taxi driver just tells you no

The price is not transparent. You know it in advance if it's uber X but it's not transparent. And of course Uber X with its "transparent price" cost the same or more as a regular taxi

I know of people who got scammed by an uber driver in india and were taken instead of their hotel in delhi all the way to kashmir. Or a friend just got dropped off on wrong street at night in a foreign country without internet. Etc

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1. warthog ◴[13 Oct 25 14:48 UTC] No.45568905[source]▶
I definitely wrote it by hand, no LLM used if that is what you are insinuating.

Uber might have turned to the bad practices used by taxis now that they are focused on extracting more and more value. However, the point of the writing was to be focused on earlier days. In the earlier days, they did try and embodied price transparency and customer experience focused on customers.

If you are arguing that they never did, I don't see how it grew to a $200 Bn company.

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2. throwaway290 ◴[13 Oct 25 15:58 UTC] No.45569827[source]▶
They did it because they were losing money to capture market.

The smart places knew it and regulated uber or killed it and keep local taxis working

Kind of like a country can subsidize car industry export tons of cars and kill domestic production in another country. Then they can jack up prices and profit on their terms.

They don't win because their cars are better. They win because they are lying by price

Same with closedai and friends now.