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FrodosNewPet

(495 posts) Wed Mar 1, 2017, 01:27 AM Mar 2017

Uber CEO Kalanick Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares

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Uber CEO Kalanick Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares (Original Post) FrodosNewPet Mar 2017 OP

Race to the bottom California_Republic Mar 2017 #1

Hope the driver zentrum Mar 2017 #2

Let me get this straight since apparently this CEO couldn't figure it out turbinetree Mar 2017 #3

California_Republic

(1,826 posts)

1. Race to the bottom

Reply to FrodosNewPet (Original post)

Wed Mar 1, 2017, 01:37 AM

Mar 2017

Next company will allow older cars and pickups and drop rates even lower.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)

2. Hope the driver

Reply to FrodosNewPet (Original post)

Wed Mar 1, 2017, 01:41 AM

Mar 2017

...isn't punished somehow and can move to Lyft. Uber is terrible. The poor drivers pay more in gas than they make. Often are making below minimum per hour and no benefits. Uber is worth 44B worldwide, I think. Not to mention that he was sitting on Trump's financial advisory team until outed.

turbinetree

(24,725 posts)

3. Let me get this straight since apparently this CEO couldn't figure it out

Reply to FrodosNewPet (Original post)

Wed Mar 1, 2017, 10:24 AM

Mar 2017

Here he is a person making "Billions" off slave labor wages, no benefits, using there own car, insurance, buying gas, oil, tires, etc.. and he doesn't realize that he is being recorded, I thought he was tech savvy.

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