• ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      Uber/Lyft

      Airbnb

      Apart from the recently added surge pricing, what else is illegal about these 2?

      • lime!@feddit.nu
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        1 个月前

        dependent on where you are, they are textbook skirting the law. uber got crushed when they launched in sweden because taxi drivers need to do basically the same training as bus drivers. it’s an extra letter on your license, with all that entails of age limits, theory and practical tests, x amount of time driven a year etc.

        nowadays ubers in sweden are just taxis, which hilariously means that they by law have to have a price list on the cars. which basically kneecaps their entire business model.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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      1 个月前

      Because you have 2/4 general terms:

      1. Rideshare
      2. Short term rentals
      3. Crypto
      4. LLM
      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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        1 个月前

        “Rideshare” is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren’t sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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          1 个月前

          Taxis/cabs are legal. Also, perhaps because of age, I tend to view taxis and cabs as phone numbers you call for a car to show up (or go to a taxi stand), whereas I see rideshare as reserve via an app.

          I think ride share really just means a vehicle that is used not solely for commercial purposes

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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            1 个月前

            They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the “rideshare” companies is that they don’t. We should just call them “unregulated taxis” rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

            • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
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              1 个月前

              I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

              I’d like to point out this probably would have taken another 10-15 years to achieve had it not been for the disruption of said ridesharing apps.

              • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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                1 个月前

                Just because there’s a inconvenience for consumers doesn’t mean you make workers suffer instead of fixing the problem.

  • brewery@feddit.uk
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    1 个月前

    How about

    • reinventing trains but worse
    • rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
    • we deliver everything but once we take over it’ll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
    • we deliver any food by people who can’t drive (for slave wages)
    • we’ll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
    • we’ll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
    • acantharea@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 个月前

      Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!

      Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
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    1 个月前

    I personally hate the “thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives” ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.

  • maplesaga@lemmy.world
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    1 个月前

    Fake money for criminals is speaking of USD here?

    Just because it grows at 8% doesnt mean its fake, its also fake because the Fed is a corrupt institution that stopped caring about measuring real inflation a long time ago.

  • finkrat@lemmy.world
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    1 个月前

    Having watched enough Kitboga I think we’re underestimating the impact of the sheer joy and catharsis fake money for criminals ends up causing

    • ozymandias@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 个月前

      well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
      and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
      … maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
      fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….