Pluralistic: No, Uber's (still) not profitable (09 August 2023)

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No, Uber's (still) not profitable: A relentless, world-leading innovator in ever-sweatier balance sheet tricks, accounting gimmicks and hopium.
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Pluralistic: 05 Aug 2022

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Uber's still not profitable: An effective wealth transfer of $2.8 billion from labor to capital in just three months.
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Pluralistic: 15 Jun 2022

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Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts.
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Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2022

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The Big Lie that keeps the Uber bezzle alive: A credulous press continues to report massive losses as profitability.
This day in history: 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 19 Jun 2021

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The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups": Uber and Lyft spent their way into a rep for racial justice.
The doctrine of dynastic wealth: Abigail Disney on tax evasion and the American caste system.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 07 Mar 2020

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Audio from last night's Canada Reads event in Kelowna: Thanks to Sarah Penton for being such a great interviewer!
Gig economy drivers won't get sick-pay if they have covid-19 symptoms: Your Instacart driver is being incentivized to handle your food through his fever-sweats.
Compromise threatens Intel's chip-within-a-chip: A bug in the Management Engine threatens five years' worth of Intel systems.
The savior of Waterstones will turn every B&N into an indie: James Daunt has opened 60 profitable stores in his career.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
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