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Now imagine you live in a housing project and need to get to work and nobody will pick you up.

One would think the price would increase until someone would pick you up.

Uber should add the ability to bid up your route--like when it's taking a long time to match you to a driver, or you want to entice a driver who is nearby so you can get where you're going sooner.

You don't find it a bit dystopian that someone has to pay more for a ride only because they live in a poor neighborhood?

If driving people from or to poor neighborhoods increase risks for the driver then it's fair risk compensation.

Uh, won’t that make the neighborhood, I don’t know, poorer?

You heard it here first, folks. The invisible hand of the market solves racism!

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