>$UBER TECHNOLOGIES' CAREEM IS IN ADVANCED TALKS WITH UAE'S E& FOR INVESTMENT IN SUPER APP EXPANSION - SOURCES ^\*Walter ^Bloomberg ^[@DeItaone](http://twitter.com/DeItaone) ^at ^2023-03-28 ^12:57:14 ^EDT-0400

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There still needs to be some poors to uber the other poors from bus stops to their low paying menial jobs though.

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you make more than me as uber driver. Wtf you talking about regard. you rich

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Driving Uber really makes me feel poor.

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Hot take/ 99% of the tech "innovation" from 2010-2020 wasn't really revolutionary stuff, just convenience bullshit like Uber and Doordash. Regarded services that skim off the top made for lazy people. Also, most of these shitty businesses were only allowed to exist due to QE for a decade. We're gonna have a lost decade of innovation because money printer is turned off for a while. All the bullshit hype around A.I. is 99% hype and smooth talkers trying to find a way to skim their cut off the top. Again. /Hot take

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Can you fit in a couple more metaphors? You didn't really drive the point home for me like an Uber driver would after a heavy night of drinking in a mi-sized metropolitan city

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Lol second place to a behemoth like Uber is a great place to start.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-hires-new-ceo-as-founders-step-back-amid-struggles-with-competition-493d1aa5?mod=mhp **“I think being a strong No. 2 is a good place to be,” he added. “I like where we are, but we’ve got real work to do to fight it out a little bit.”** Wow. The new LYFT CEO admitting they’ll settle for second place behind Uber.

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Uber and Lyft did this in the U.S. They would threaten to pull their companies out of cities with unfavorable regulations. They'd buy ads and news stories favorable to their image. They'd ask their own drivers to click a couple times to send their legislators form emails. They'd at best agree to very middling legislation to provide minimum insurance for drivers through insurance companies. And if anything came up like class action lawsuits, it would lead to endless arbitration that went nowhere. Further, drivers can be deactivated for no reason, effectively leaving them at the mercy of their employer.

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my tiny gain today wont even be enough for a small meal at Uber eats, peak inflation my ass.

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