The driver didn’t wait, I waited for them. Four cents is twice the cost of my brand loyalty.

I hope this starts a trend. If these greed-driven whoring corporations want to glom onto every penny they can, fuck 'em. I’m out.

  • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1121·
    6 days ago

    Greed driven is how capitalism works

    I think it works using market forces, as in when someone doesn’t like how they are treated, they cancel their uber account, this means people like the OP can sign up with a competing company and give them his money, thus strengthening the economic power that customers should be treated well in order for the business to survive

    this is the opposite of communism, where you are forced to use the governments uber service and when you are treated like shit you treat this as normal expected behaviour because you have no other choice in the matter

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      214·
      6 days ago

      market forces is just fancy talk for “the oligarchs will decide”

      which usually means all services are (or quickly become) garbage because they are all driven by greed.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      13·
      6 days ago

      What if there’s no competing companies, but a monopoly (as is the dream of capitalists) or a cartel (a lesser dream)?

      Let’s not forget that these companies aren’t really running on profits from customers. They’re running on venture capital bro driven development. Uber lost money for 15 years.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 days ago

      Market forces are not capitalism, they’re a component that is utilized under certain conditions in capitalism, and not only in capitalism. Most markets trend towards oligopoloes and monopolies. It’s now easy to see how. Competition literally leads to consolidation. The market share of failed competitors, often their equipment and other assets, and even often their former employees become part of the winning competitors’ operations. Rinse and repeat till you end up with very few, very big players.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      6 days ago

      Capitalism works great in theory, but in practice “market forces” are undermined by monopolies, collusion, and regulatory capture. ISPs are a good example, in many places they collaborate to ensure their coverage areas don’t overlap so that they can all charge as much as possible.

      • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
        2·
        6 days ago

        That is one good thing about living in Saskatchewan, we have crowns to force the service providers such as phone, internet, and TV down in price.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Provided someone is willing to provide such a fair and effective competing service, and doesn’t go out of business due to much lower profit.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      14·
      6 days ago

      you have no other choice in the matter

      Except you do because everything like that is under democratic power.

      OP can sign up with a competing company

      Which? Lyft is dying. Maybe it would work in some markets but in many markets especially smaller ones you have Uber and the local taxi service which will cost at least as much, maybe a lot more.