Tag: Uber

In the first six months of 2018, eight New York City yellow cab drivers, impacted by big tech disruption on the taxi industry, took their own lives. “I am not a Slave and I refuse to be one,” wrote one in his suicide note.

While “Ubering” was acquiring cachet as a verb and as a routine rite of passage for millennials (the heaviest users of the service), the company was besieged by problems. Some came squarely on the back of a general lack of ethics, or care for consequences.

People are busy. The more tools we come up with to help us be faster, smarter, and better at keeping…  Read More

Uber isn’t in the taxi business. It’s not really in the dispatch business, or even in the tech business. It’s…  Read More