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It's funny how angsty 2018 era San Francisco was about ride sharing. Everyone thought it was "big tech is crushing the world", when really it was "vc's and endowments are going to subsidize your rides for 10 years because they are terrified of missing out". Thanks Yale!

Rides were $5 cross town in SF. Those losses? They are still subsidizing them, just by less.

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Subsidizing your rides while corrupting your democracy by pooring endless cash into lobying against worker rights... It's a pretty heavy price.

Another big myth is that money is stopping all your ideas from being accepted. The truth is that you haven't convinced people.

This is true even for entirely correct ideas.

None of those were going to pass anyway, so it's no price at all.

Huh? Worker right exist and codified in law, Uber spent millions if not billions in lobbying to get them changed all over the world.

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