{"id":180269,"date":"2017-06-08T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/08\/the-term-is-not-disruptive-its-criminogenic\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:14:00","slug":"the-term-is-not-disruptive-its-criminogenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/08\/the-term-is-not-disruptive-its-criminogenic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Term is Not Disruptive, It&#8217;s Criminogenic\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the things that Silicon Valley companies did were done by black people, they would be in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The avatar of such behavior is, of course, Uber.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a roundup of their latest hits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Uber executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/6\/7\/15754316\/uber-executive-india-assault-rape-medical-records\">arranged for the medical records of an Uber rider who was raped by her driver to be stolen so that they could imply that it was a setup by a competitor<\/a>. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/07\/technology\/uber-fires-executive.html\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>He showed the files to the CEO and a Senior VP, and was only fired when the story broke on the news. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Uber used a&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/07\/uber-used-stock-based-comp-algorithm-paying-women-less-report.html\">compensation algorithm that systematically underpaid women<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The obvious question is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/jun\/08\/uber-customers-sexual-harassment-tech-companies\">why do people patronize such an awful company<\/a>, and I think that answer is that we have seen 30 years of idolizing behaviors that are at best dishonest, and at worst sociopathic.<\/p>\n<p>The point here is not that Uber is a bad company peopled by criminals, though it is, it is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/jun\/08\/uber-embodies-the-toxicity-of-start-up-culture\">Uber&nbsp; is merely the apotheosis of what is a larcenous culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If we had serious enforcement of corporate criminality and antitrust, many of the tech billionaires would be in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the things that Silicon Valley companies did were done by black people, they would be in jail. The avatar of such behavior is, of course, Uber. Here is a roundup of their latest hits: An Uber executive arranged for the medical records of an Uber rider who was raped by her driver to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,395,368,364,595,382],"class_list":["post-180269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-computer","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-society","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}