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Can we get an open source gig economy app where 75% of the profits go to gig workers? Then 7.5% would go towards employee rights and benefits of gig workers, 7.5% towards contributors improving the software, and 10% towards customer support and legal third parties.
The loss of innovation has zip to do with the Uber Economy. Try the fact that the middle class has been gutted by an unfair tax structure that shreds responsibility away from the wealthy and corporations and has created peripheral damage in high college cost and low public school expectations. Bring back the tax rate where people making over 540k (the 1980 equivalent of the top tax rate $225,000) pay 50% on anything…
The current president had been holding a position of power in Washington for 50 years. Same is true for many other top politicians. As long as you vote in the same people over and over again, nothing will change.
All problems are down stream of voting rights, gerrymandering, and first past the post / non-proportional representation
Fully agree with this. It seems like so many of the apps that come to dominate just make up for shortcomings unique to the US that then, with money, take over the rest of the west for no good reason other than scale to get 25 people at the top of those companies rich. I’ve never seen the need for Uber. Taxis have never been an issue in the UK and the most successful firms in the city I lived when Uber was starting ou…
I landed in India or Brazil a few times, with language familiarity limited to "bon día". Without local sim card. This trip would be orders of magnitude harder without Uber and similar.
I just find it really weird that there wasn't a thinktank in 2005 or so, that said "Okay, what are the next big phone applications?" and invented Uber and a few others. What is the point of these thinktanks if they can't predict 3 years ahead along our current technological advancement curve?
Venture capital ought to have it's hand on the pulse of technology. The most impactful tech of the last 5 years, with massive societal and financial returns, was mRNA vaccines. Yet I've never heard VCs raving about them. As soon it touches physical world, it gets shunned by investors
1920 - 1970: Technology = Solution for a Problem At Hand
1970 - present: Technology = Solution looking for a Problem to Solve
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I regularly use non Uber taxis and have found them to actually be reliable. I'm in London and I'm not talking about black cabs for ref.
Was taxi reliable and good prior to the advent of uber?
> Economists have long found that they can explain only a portion of economic growth by the growth of inputs to production, such as the number of hours worked or the amount of capital used. The unexplained (or residual) portion, which presumably reflects advances in production technologies and processes, is conventionally attributed to all of the production factors together and is referred to as total factor productivity (TFP) growth.
I don’t think it’s fair to blame Uber for the lack of economic growth for the entire USA.
In addition, the paper referencing the economic slowdown compares 1970-2006, 36 years, to 2006-2016, 10 years. And during those 10 years the housing bubble collapsed. The dates selected appear cherry picked to show the largest decline possible.
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It sounds more like a banking problem than an innovation problem.
I agree with that. Money seems to flow to "safe" products. Some minor iteration of payments, CRM, taxis or fitness. How do you fix it when the incentives are skewed towards quick bucks? Government pushing certain industries has worked for China. There'll be a lot of opposition to that in the US I'd imagine.
We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption, 1920 - 1970: Technology = Solution for a Problem At Hand 1970 - present: Technology = Solution looking for a Problem to Solve
Can we get an open source gig economy app where 75% of the profits go to gig workers? Then 7.5% would go towards employee rights and benefits of gig workers, 7.5% towards contributors improving the software, and 10% towards customer support and legal third parties.
Huh? Nothing stops gig workers as it is from organizing and just paying an app developer. The unions simply can't make inroads with them for whatever reasons.