{"id":181149,"date":"2016-09-18T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/18\/of-course-it-wouldnt-be-an-emergency-without-uber-profiteering\/"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:08:00","slug":"of-course-it-wouldnt-be-an-emergency-without-uber-profiteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/18\/of-course-it-wouldnt-be-an-emergency-without-uber-profiteering\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course, It Wouldn’t Be an Emergency without Uber Profiteering\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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#NYCExplosion<\/a> causes residents to attempt to get home. #Uber<\/a> taking total advantage of chaos and surcharging passengers 1.4 to 1.8 times.<\/div>\n

\u2014 Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) September 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

So, of course, within moments of the bomb going off, the surge pricing kicked in<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Passengers attempting to hail Uber cars during New York City’s explosion on Saturday night hammered the ride sharing service for its pricing policies, accusing the company of gouging customers during a dangerous incident. <\/span>

<\/span> As news broke that a device had detonated in the city’s Chelsea section, scared passengers attempted to use their Uber apps to hail a ride home\u2014only to be hit with notifications that demand was “off the charts.” <\/span>

<\/span> Furious users took to Twitter to vent their frustration, which was first reported by The Sun UK<\/i><\/a>. Shortly after the blast, Uber announced on the social network that it had suspended its “surge pricing,” a system that has been criticized in the past by some riders.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They announced that “surge pricing” was suspended, but reports from Twitter indicate otherwise.<\/p>\n

This is what happens when you allow Ayn Rand worshiping psychopaths to blithely ignore regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#NYCExplosion causes residents to attempt to get home. #Uber taking total advantage of chaos and surcharging passengers 1.4 to 1.8 times. \u2014 Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) September 18, 2016 So, of course, within moments of the bomb going off, the surge pricing kicked in: Passengers attempting to hail Uber cars during New York City’s explosion on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[775,761,818,766,862],"class_list":["post-181149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-disaster","tag-evil","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181149"}],"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=181149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}