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"Rideshare apps" implies some sort of sharing is occurring. Are cab drivers sharing their cars too? Gives the impression that the intended service is organizing carpools, not turning cabbies into part time contractors.
iirc that was the pitch, very very very early on. The reason they could just operate an unlicensed cab was because it was just random people freely choosing to share their ride (for gas money)
Part of me wants to say
about it always being this cynical capitalist ploy, but I am hesitant to discount the incredible power of bazingas trying to shoehorn technological solutions to social problems. Bazingas + VC money is the synthesis of this
oh it was absolutely always fake. They wanted to replace taxis from the very beginning (although they started out with luxury black cars that weren't particularly price competitive)
:yea: the whole concept is
in a multitude of ways, very much an example of car ideology preventing the consideration of serious solutions