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
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.
Because the entire platform is a tool for violating and grinding into dust existing labor laws. Why would political funding laws be any different?
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
Uber is literally a tool for violating labor law.
They'll get away with it, unless someone offers them some masonry.
Public transit is a direct threat to their shareholders.
But isn't trying to influence public policy illegal?
I don't think so.
When my city had a soda tax, every fucking store put a sign out calling it a war on poor people tax. But it was a $0.10 increase on sugary drinks to add to the educational budget.
Or maybe it is illegal but I live in a shit hole country.
Outrageous!
It should be a progressive tax topping out way higher than that!
"Secret" yet this was likely voted on at the ballot.
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.
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!
Ridesharing, yes. Not uber taxi with exploitation
Free ride sharing (eg hitchhiking) is better than cheap ride sharing (eg blabla car) which is better then expensive ride sharing (eg a taxi) which - but all are better than there only beingprivately owned cars that are exclusively privately used.
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.
My high school econ teacher pointed out that New York used to have a fixed number of taxi licenses.This made competition illegal and kept the price up.
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