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"To achieve its market share, Uber broke laws, generated in-house academic research affirming its own narrative, leveraged political connections to rewrite labor laws or otherwise exempt itself from them, and convinced journalists to view its growth as progressive, not parasitic."
#EdwardOngwesoJr, 2024
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"This meant that when a laundry list of horrible abuses came to light, journalists who had spent years regurgitating narratives about Uber’s innovative potential and disruption of “Big Taxi” were incapable of connecting the dots between Uber’s core business model, its drivers’ working conditions, and its toxic internal culture."
#EdwardOngwesoJr, 2024
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"It is hard to imagine how making Uber more diverse and “inclusive” would’ve done anything to alter its core issue: a business model so destructive and extractive that it could only claim to turn a profit after losing $33 billion, eviscerating the existing taxi industry, achieving near market dominance, and undermining existing labor laws."
#EdwardOngwesoJr, 2024
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"Burn Book suggests Swisher doesn’t necessarily see tech’s cozy relationship with the military as problematic. Early on, she admits she dreamed of working as a strategic analyst for the military or Central Intelligence Agency but gave up that path because of how openly anti-gay the military was."
#EdwardOngwesoJr, 2024
This is 21st century Democrat politics in a nutshell. Technofascism is fine, as long as its power positions and their benefits aren't hoarded by straight, white, cis men.
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The very concept of equal opportunities technofascism is, of course, incoherent nonsense. But it allows Democrat politicians, and their hangers-on, to take what spoils they can get, while still reassuring themselves they're on the side of the angels (they support DEI too!).
They're hopeful this schtick convinces the rest of us too. I've seen plenty of evidence here that it does, although some of that might be influence operations at work.
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