This is how Uber is manipulating americans. They sent an emergency message to everyone in the city, telling them to protest. The tax is $1 to improve public transit
Ridesharing is an improvement on some of the problems of privately owned cars. Its more equitable and accessible. It saves the necessity of giant parking lots.
Public transit is even better!
Yes, in principle. However, uber have a well known history of skirting labour laws, skirting taxi laws and doing so to undermine competition and then jack up prices. Risesharing is better than owning a car, but monopolies in how that works are not good for anyone except uber.
Fediverse rideshare? Maybe. Not sure how the liabilities would fall.
Define ridesharing. I think of e.g. sharing a ride to work or school and not people working, often full-time, with sharing rides
When tiktok did this, politicians took that as a sign to further ban efforts. When does uber get banned?
When it stops being American and stops bribing American politicians, obvs.
Fuck Uber with a broken glass-encrusted dildo. Those Randroid douchebags can die in a fire made of fires.
no need to kink shame
Why tf is Uber notifying people of anything not directly related to a ride they’ve ordered??
Walmart near me has put up signs at the check out complaining about some tax.
If I ever went to my local Walmart, I'd turn them around.
If you knock them over, they'll get fixed faster.
This has to be illegal and if it isn't it should be.
For some reason tech companies get a pass on a ton of regulations just because they're a different form of whatever they're replacing.
"No no no Ubers not a taxi service it's an app. toooootally different..." /s
If you have money, legality means nothing. Uber has money.
Looks like an app notification
They can send notifications through their app (which you installed and very probably accepted to in the terms and conditions) without any legal concern so yeah no.
Even if you try fighting it they'll just say hey it's your phone man just uninstall the app
Outrageous!
It should be a progressive tax topping out way higher than that!
Public transit is a direct threat to their shareholders.
Uber has been fucked since the very beginning.
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds #271 - Uber (NSFW)
Oh no private equity isn't getting it's way.
If it is so secret how come you know about it
"Everyone in the city". Hyperbole much? They didn't send it to every single person in the city.
I think you might have taken it a bit too literally. It’s clearly an uber push notification, so the implication is that everyone in the city (who uses uber and has the app installed) got a notification.