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  • The fact that they would actually show up.

    unless you see the uber car circling around you on the map, then canceling the ride and cashing in the “cancelation fee”

    The dispatcher would tell you someone will be there in 20 minutes and, if you were lucky, somebody might show up in 45. Before Uber, there was more than one occasion where I ended up stranded downtown until 4 or 5am after the bars had closed at 3:00.

    yeah, but this is not an invention of uber. it is just that we got the to point where technology allowed what was not possible before. yes, uber was faster to adapt it than traditional taxi industry, but they are not doing it for your blue eyes, they are doing it for profit and they do lot of shady stuff to achieve it.














  • keeping track of people credit history is a huge violation of GDPR and would be illegal in the EU

    it is not precisely answering the question, but here in czechia, debt collecting is a private and pretty shady business. there is centralized database of these debts and literally anyone can check literally anyone else in the database, provided you know the person’s equivalent of social security number, at any post office.

    that is not the debt from credit cards as americans understand it, but debt where you had to pay something and didn’t, maybe you got behind on your rent or w/e, and the court confirmed the debt and allowed it to go to private debt collecting.