stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 11 months ago'Leave them stranded': Rideshare drivers shut off apps at Atlanta airport, boycott for hourswww.fox5atlanta.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-link'Leave them stranded': Rideshare drivers shut off apps at Atlanta airport, boycott for hourswww.fox5atlanta.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
If you have company flying into Atlanta for the holidays, they may have a hard time getting a ride to your place.
minus-squarefirecat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down6·11 months agoThe middle man is a millionaire who modified the law to cheat customers like you out of hundreds of dollars in the name of profit. VS Some guy who wants to buy food.
minus-squareNuXCOM_90Percentlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 months agoIdeologically, I agree. But when I am putting a friend in the car to get them home after a night out or have too much luggage to keep it in the back seat? Liability, even with limits, goes a long way
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·11 months agoI agree with you, but that isn’t worth that ungodly amount of money.
minus-squareNuXCOM_90Percentlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI mean, avoiding DUI and the hassle of a DD is often worth even the surcharge price. Same with not getting your car fucked up at an event. I try to avoid surge pricing times. But there is very much a reason people pay it
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-211 months agothe reason being they are pretty much an oligopoly now, so people have no choice but to pay up drivers are getting shafted, customers are getting shafted, Uber’s shareholders are getting richer.
The middle man is a millionaire who modified the law to cheat customers like you out of hundreds of dollars in the name of profit.
VS
Some guy who wants to buy food.
Ideologically, I agree.
But when I am putting a friend in the car to get them home after a night out or have too much luggage to keep it in the back seat? Liability, even with limits, goes a long way
I agree with you, but that isn’t worth that ungodly amount of money.
I mean, avoiding DUI and the hassle of a DD is often worth even the surcharge price. Same with not getting your car fucked up at an event.
I try to avoid surge pricing times. But there is very much a reason people pay it
the reason being they are pretty much an oligopoly now, so people have no choice but to pay up
drivers are getting shafted, customers are getting shafted, Uber’s shareholders are getting richer.