Tag: Uber
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The free market is failing us
Are you feeling freer yet? From all the free market stuff happening, I mean. What I’ve been noticing – and what you are probably noticing too – are all the vacant storefronts. Retailing must be in recession. We have a tiny mall across the river from us. I was in there the other day looking…
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Monetary policy and the danger of revolution
My recent post on quantum computing and its impact on cyber currencies like BitCoin have taken me exploring the world of money some more. This exploration took me to this video, which discusses who controls money and how it is created. I think this video is meant to be shocking. Most of us are painfully…
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Invest in innovation, not exploitation
America is a supposedly country that rewards innovation. The trouble is, a lot of this innovation is really exploitation. I looked into this briefly a few posts back when I looked at Lyft and Uber’s “innovation”. The only really innovative part about these ride services is their app. They’re both cheaper and generally faster than…
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The gig economy model is exploitative and unsustainable
I took my first Lyft ride the other day. I am pleased to say that the technology worked great! I picked up my luggage at baggage claim at Bradley International near Hartford, opened my Lyft app and within two minutes a driver was flagging me down and I was on my way home. I arrived…
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Why do we hate the poor?
Have you ever been poor? I’m not sure where the dividing line is between poor and not poor, but if you are poor you will know it. By that standard I have been poor. One thing I learned during those years is that being poor totally sucked. Anyone who has ever been poor has every…
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Brave new carless world
Her graduation gift (if the over $100,000 we spent on her college education wasn’t enough of a gift) was the title to her car. It was a 2005 Toyota Prius, with about 110,000 miles on it. She had the mis/good fortune to have its battery go out on it a few days after delivery. It…
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