{"id":186051,"date":"2014-05-28T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/28\/maybe-the-taxi-business-needs-to-be-changed-but-until-uber-is-out-of-the-picture-it-wont-happen\/"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:32:00","slug":"maybe-the-taxi-business-needs-to-be-changed-but-until-uber-is-out-of-the-picture-it-wont-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/28\/maybe-the-taxi-business-needs-to-be-changed-but-until-uber-is-out-of-the-picture-it-wont-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the Taxi Business Needs to be Changed, but Until Uber is Out of the Picture, It Won’t Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a whole host of issues of regulation, liability, etc., but the Objectivist Randroids at Uber are the sort of people who should be kept out of the business, because they are corrupt to the core<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been pretty widely publicized here in San Francisco that Uber has just moved into fancy new office space at 1455 Market.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>In any case, what has attracted slightly less publicity is the fact \u2014 mentioned only in passing by Re\/Code \u2014 that on the same day, Uber opened a second office, on Vermont Street in Potrero. According to Uber\u2019s blog<\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve heard a lot from our Uber SF partners about wanting easier ways to reach our team including parking and streamlined access to the office. With a new dedicated driver center in Potrero Hill, we are aiming to better connect with our partners and help make getting started with Uber, attending office hours and safety education processes more seamless.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Euphemistically called a \u201cdriver center,<\/a>\u201d one Uber driver told us the second office is actually more of a decoy: allowing the company to fulfill its promise to be more accessible to drivers without, you know, actually having them make Uber\u2019s real office look untidy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the way of dealing with issues with drivers, things like insurance, liability, and complaints, is to hide from them.<\/p>\n

The way to deal with customers is price gouging, and explicitly violating the law.<\/p>\n

The founder of Uber is big into Ayn Rand<\/a>, a woman who wrote that the philosophy of a serial killer who strangled and dismembered a little girl, was an inspiration to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If a company founder demonstrates compete contempt for the very concept<\/b> of business ethics, and the company is in a consumer centered business, regulatory easements are simply not justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a whole host of issues of regulation, liability, etc., but the Objectivist Randroids at Uber are the sort of people who should be kept out of the business, because they are corrupt to the core: It\u2019s been pretty widely publicized here in San Francisco that Uber has just moved into fancy new office …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,969,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-evil","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186051"}],"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=186051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}