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Originally Posted by accord1999
But they still are since:
a) They're still losing huge sums of money.
b) Their one light in the end of the tunnel, self-driving cars, looks to be in serious legal trouble.
c) Significant publicity problems
d) Uber increasingly forced out of markets outside of North America, the UK and Australia.
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The ride share industry is here to stay. You can call it Uber, or whatever the names of the companies that move into the industry if Uber was to shut down. This is the way of the future. People can piss and moan, and post whatever they want about unfair pay, CEO did this, short-changing drivers that, and on and on and on, but the day of the taxi cab is done. Cabs will be like newspapers in ten years and that makes me smile from ear to ear because it's the scummiest industry in North America.
The market will decide the fate of Uber and ride share companies, not a bunch of unions pissed off because their monopolies are being broken up. Whatever countries don't have it now, or have forbidden it, will shortly have it. The people want it, and they will complain until they get it. All you have to do is look at Calgary. The people threw enough of a fit that his royal arrogance Naheed Nenshi had no choice but to work with the company and let them into the market. There would still be no Uber today in Calgary if the market didn't demand it.
I keep seeing people posting about the drivers being screwed, well there certainly seems to be a lot of them lining up to being screwed. There's more and more on the streets every day, and i've never once had a single one of them say a negative thing about it when I ask them about it, which I usually make a point of doing. Usual response "I can work when I want, I'm mine own boss, I just do this on the side to supplement income and if I wasn't happy I wouldn't be doing it".