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    Those subsidies are a joke (as they are with lots of other things), but the rest of it isn't worth worrying about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Two things: Less time interacting with people in exchange of more time interacting with a screen and lower prices.

    The first one we can't argue against, although as Giggles say, regular cabs are starting to wise up and offer similar services. As for the latter, they only achieve that via two things: One is ignoring every law they don't like in every place they set up and the other is by having a massive financial backing from Silicon Valley which allows them to run at a loss. The first advantage is disappearing as cities wise up and stand against it. The second one, we'll see how long they're willing to wait to see if they can crush all competition. In any case, whether investors become tired of throwing money away or they achieve monopoly status, the prices will inevitably go up.
    Cost I can't really argue on, but "less time interacting with people"? How much interaction is involved in flagging a cab down and telling the driver where you want to go? Have we really reached the level where that's too much hassle? Jesus.

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    You're forgetting how much taxi drivers are cunts as well tbh. The less interaction the better.

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    And the biggest pain as far as that's concerned is when you're stuck in the cab with them and they won't shut up, a problem, which presumably Uber doesn't solve at all.

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    They can't speak English mate. It's great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    You're forgetting how much taxi drivers are cunts as well tbh. The less interaction the better.
    It's hard to hold that against them given the amount of shit they probably have to put up with.

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    Too working class m8.

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    Me and my friend got a taxi (not enough illegals for Uber here) back from town the other night, and, in what must represent the worst of all worlds, it was driven by a woman who wouldn't shut up about life as a woman taxi driver.

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    I remember outside ER this guy stopped in the peacock and 3 of us got in, an Islamic, and he asked us where to (town). As we were going I realised there was no meter or any other distinguishing feature to mark it out as a taxi. It cost us a tenner but I'm pretty sure it was a guy making a quick buck/on the prowl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GS View Post
    You can insert a generic anti-left wing political point here if you wish.
    Wait, what? At least wait until I engage with you before being a dick. No need for pre-emptive strikes.

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    Almost all my lefty mates are happy to use Uber, myself included, but that's probably just because we're all massive hypocrites. Also I almost only ever need a cab in a city when it's like 4am, I'm shitfaced and staggering around near some shit nightclub and uber is just so much easier. I still get nightmares about coming out of Bumper in Liverpool and waiting about an hour for my taxi to arrive when I was at uni, and usually some cunt ends up taking the one I ordered. Me and my mates once had to wait by the bombed out church for 2 fucking hours (in retrospect we should have just walked, but it didn't feel like an option in the states we were in). When I went back there recently, in very similar circumstances it arrived in about 5 minutes.

    It's also nice having polite, quiet brown men rather than angry bald white men.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    c) businesses needed to follow the law and d) actually be profitable.
    What?

    Quote Originally Posted by ItalAussie View Post
    Wait, what? At least wait until I engage with you before being a dick. No need for pre-emptive strikes.
    I was using your post as a launchpad to make a point, rather than directing the entire thing at you. It wasn't a personal dig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Me and my friend got a taxi (not enough illegals for Uber here) back from town the other night, and, in what must represent the worst of all worlds, it was driven by a woman who wouldn't shut up about life as a woman taxi driver.


    Waiting for you, that one.

    The only time I've used a taxi in the past five years or so was when my car broke down. Driver was a bit of a geezer. He spent the whole ride telling us his recipes. All of them involved deep frying and copious amounts of cream.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GS View Post
    What?
    Ubers had this treatment from several places due to not adhering to basic employment law. They also made a loss of 2.8 billion last year. Made a 700 million loss in Q1 etc. etc.

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    I've not been following it closely but didn't they also knick some tech from somebody?

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Ubers had this treatment from several places due to not adhering to basic employment law. They also made a loss of 2.8 billion last year. Made a 700 million loss in Q1 etc. etc.
    That's irrelevant to the point being made.

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    Some women are upset by the news.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41365995

    Again, how did society function pre-Uber? Have rapes gone down since its introduction? Have we all run mad?

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    Nah they just want Uber and are using the new found 'women are the whole world' stance in society as an ace in their deck.

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    Someone will presumably suggest women-only taxis as a solution, only to be confronted with the no-doubt-dreadful conundrum of what happens when a six foot bloke with a one foot beard decides to 'identify' as a woman in order to avail of the service.

    The country's fucked whilst that lot are about, so we might as well just seal London off and float it out into the sea. That should take 80% of them out, and it's only a matter of time until the rest of them give up.

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    Not feeling comfortable getting the night bus is quite funny. For the love of jesus. The kids really aren't alright.

    There are so many good quotes in there though.

    Just phone up Addison Lee or god knows who else, I presume there are a myriad of private hire providers doing basically the same thing. Where are the tears for the many victims of Uber's exploitative practices? Oh, that's ok, I get a cheap ride home. They can get fucked, as can much of the 'disruption' set to largely wreck the course of human existence over the coming years.

    Given the choice, I'll take the cabbie over the 26 year old marketing manager.

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    It comes as no surprise that people's morals only extend to the point where it doesn't inconvenience them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    It comes as no surprise that people's morals only extend to the point where it doesn't inconvenience them.


    The Conservatives should be hammering this sort of thing home, as it's a useful example of the end-game if the pinko brigade got power.

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    Dat thread title tho.

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    "The main reason why drivers use Uber is because they value the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive and so we intend to appeal,"

    Sure.

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    They would presumably just be taxi drivers otherwise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    "The main reason why drivers use Uber is because they value the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive and so we intend to appeal,"

    Sure.
    It most likely is to a large extent. What’s the beef?

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    The 'beef' is to pretend that they're all about freedomz so that they can avoid labor laws. For the benefit of their drivers, of course.

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    They’re all forrins anyway.

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    Is this 'Poober' decision going to blow the courier racket to pieces? I think I would actually lol if it did.

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    Poober.

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    If it does then alot of people supplementing their cushy Furlouged existence are going to get fucked.

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    I remember reading something a while ago that represented all these things - Uber, Deliveroo, etc. that burn through money - as a gigantic subsidy for city-dwellers set to leave people high and dry when they either failed or reached their eventual monopolistic cash-in stage.

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