Pluralistic: Lies, damned lies, and Uber (29 Feb 2024)

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Lies, damned lies, and Uber: Uber wants to pay its Toronto drivers $2.50/hour (eh).
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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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This day in history: 2013, 2018
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Pluralistic: Venture predation (19 May 2023)

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Venture predation: A pile of shit this big MUST have a pony underneath it!
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck

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$100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla.
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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.
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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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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2017, 2021
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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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This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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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: 10 Aug 2021

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End of the line for Uber: Accounting tricks and tech gimmickry don't matter when the coffers are empty.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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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.
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Pluralistic: 02 Jun 2021

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NYC's driver-owned Uber alternative: Platform cooperativism needs interoperability, though.
Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale: The right kind of automation.
How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes: Onshore-offshore and the IP shell-game.
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