AI6YR BenCNN:‘I’m done’: Rideshare drivers on the brink of quitting over higher gas prices
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/04/01/business/uber-lyft-doordash-drivers-gas
*** Uber/Lyft have moved all the risk/expenses to the drivers, who are the ones that suffer, while the corporation retains most of the profits... it's fundamental to their business model, basically forcing the drivers into the "company town" kind of model where they can barely get ahead.
cpm@ai6yr
it was in their intial SEC filing
in plain text
Uber would become profitable when *ALL* trips/journeys were in Ubers
Right There!
No Transit
No bicycles
No walking
No nothing
*All*
&
folks said:
"Wow! An App based thing!
How disruptive!
How future!"
these shitheels offer *nothing*
nothing at all.
Uber is *100%* grift
is now
always was
from inception
@ai6yr
Side note:
The very week Uber was 'rubber stamped' to do biz in my (our) Univ town,
I was hit by an Uber driver "on my bike"
zipping around
'grabb'n that cash! (heavily subsidized by investor $$)'
we had 3 healthy taxi companies
all gone within a few months.
Nothing like unregulated wildcat cabs with gov license to operate to bury them.
&
That's what it was always about.
But! It's an app!
that's good!
Right?
Cory Doctorow laid it out nicely
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-big-lie-that-keeps-the-uber-bezzle-alive-8d6e8c0ccde7
14mission@cpm @ai6yr @pluralistic I really don't get why cities are so enthusiastic to displace taxis with Ub*r.
@14mission
it's an app!
new!
shiny!
technology!
it's the future!
I boggled at the council hearing where Uber's request to operate was rubber stamped with no pushback at all
my guess is it was Uber's promise they would solve all woes and all gov had to do is nothing.
@14mission
Nope
initials
with nickname 'Chip'
early days
needed username(s)
&
cpm was ez
&
for me?
fun
was using cp/m at the time
just kind of stuck
was super-annoyed when internic rejected my nic handle