How to Make $6k a Month by Moving Citi Bikes Around the Block
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#2Old stuff, bike renting companies were proposing that in Brussels years ago, before doing that will their own employees. I guess the scheme has been abused.
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#3Gift article link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/nyregion/citi-bike-scam-n...
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#4This feels really scummy in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense.
A system put in place to incentivise helping people, abused by a few to inconvenience customers for pocket change.
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#5This feels really scummy in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense. A system put in place to incentivise helping people, abused by a few to inconvenience customers for pocket change.
It's not really fair to say $6k a month is pocket change. I agree with one of the quotes that if they want some different behavior, they should incentivise something different.
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#6Washington, DC has a similar program [1]. I believe Capital Bikeshare is also maintained by Lyft in some way. I wonder if this one is harder to abuse or if it's just that NYC has a larger pop than DC so there is a larger pool of bikes to collect?
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#7This feels really scummy in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense. A system put in place to incentivise helping people, abused by a few to inconvenience customers for pocket change.
Yeah. My favorite part:
“How are we cheating?” said one Angel in a baggy gray T-shirt, black athletic shorts and sneakers, who declined to give his name. “If Lyft wants something else, they can change the algorithm.”
I don't think anyone would buy that he doesn't know it's cheating, but that won't stop him from attempting to rationalize his behavior because he likes the money.
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#8This feels really scummy in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense. A system put in place to incentivise helping people, abused by a few to inconvenience customers for pocket change.
It's not really fair to say $6k a month is pocket change. I agree with one of the quotes that if they want some different behavior, they should incentivise something different.
As we all know, if it's a company, it's not a scam and there's no such thing as victim blaming. Instead, it's "perverse incentives".
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#9Gift article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/nyregion/citi-bike-scam-n...
FYI, a third party archive link is still preferable for some, as gift articles on nytimes.com still require javascript to be enabled.