Millennials go crazy on Uber over a tweet. I think not so sure.

[Hugo Drax]

LOL snowflakes go wild. Uber posts on twitter that Surge pricing is off due to lack of cab service (Some shit about cab drivers going on strike because of the muslim ban)

Millennials go apeshit because they feel Uber should be striking in solidarity so now they delete uber app and are using lyft instead. But wait? Why not ban lyft since they are still offering rides?

The funny thing is perpetual protesters were using Uber to get to the airport to protest, well now they are using lyft because uber is still providing rides instead of not providing rides in solidarity with the cab drivers?


Oh and "The Queen of Millennials Lena Durnham is making sure everyone knows she is banning the use of Uber.

Wait but Lyft is still providing rides? why not ban them also? I am totally confused, what is going on?




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[brycejones]

This is also a reaction to comments made by Uber's CEO where he didn't exactly condemn the administration's move. Look around a little bit and you might figure things out a bit on your own.

Good luck!

 

[norseamd]

Look around a little bit and you might figure things out a bit on you own.

Just what exactly are you expecting now? The 2nd coming of Christ?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

This is also a reaction to comments made by Uber's CEO where he didn't exactly condemn the administration's move. Look around a little bit and you might figure things out a bit on you own.

Good luck!

The comment/tweet I read was pretty vague.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Uber continued to carry passengers—many of them protesters rallying in support of detainees—to the airport. However, the company announced shortly after 730pm Eastern that it would temporarily suspend surge pricing, in recognition that demand would be unusually high.

Still, users—angered by the fact that the company didn't completely halt service in solidarity—lashed out by vowing to delete their Uber applications. Some pledged to switch to competitor Lyft, even though Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was one of the first Silicon Valley chiefs to come out against the Trump travel ban.

Can someone explain? So why Lyft? It seems Uber was against the Travel ban yet somehow they are banned but why not Lyft if they are still doing rides?

Wow they are going on a blind attack against Uber without a clue its like mob mentality x1000 no thought process at all. Millennials are messed up in the head.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Uber continued to carry passengers—many of them protesters rallying in support of detainees—to the airport. However, the company announced shortly after 730pm Eastern that it would temporarily suspend surge pricing, in recognition that demand would be unusually high.

Still, users—angered by the fact that the company didn't completely halt service in solidarity—lashed out by vowing to delete their Uber applications. Some pledged to switch to competitor Lyft, even though Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was one of the first Silicon Valley chiefs to come out against the Trump travel ban.

Can someone explain? So why Lyft? It seems Uber was against the Travel ban yet somehow they are banned but why not Lyft if they are still doing rides?

Wow they are going on a blind attack against Uber without a clue its like mob mentality x1000 no thought process at all. Millennials are messed up in the head.

Virtue signalling, nothing more.

 

[K1052]

His statement was seen as vague and very weak, I know a number of people in the tech community out there who feel this way. Touting that he was on the economic board was a bad move. They are already considered brash and arrogant and this did nothing to improve that perception.

Lyft saw an opportunity and took a firm public stance and gave the ACLU $1M. Given that it's the "liberal snowflakes" in cities that probably use the vast majority of rideshare I'm going with this is probably not real good PR for Uber.

 

[JSt0rm]

Uber continued to carry passengers—many of them protesters rallying in support of detainees—to the airport. However, the company announced shortly after 730pm Eastern that it would temporarily suspend surge pricing, in recognition that demand would be unusually high.

Still, users—angered by the fact that the company didn't completely halt service in solidarity—lashed out by vowing to delete their Uber applications. Some pledged to switch to competitor Lyft, even though Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was one of the first Silicon Valley chiefs to come out against the Trump travel ban.

Can someone explain? So why Lyft? It seems Uber was against the Travel ban yet somehow they are banned but why not Lyft if they are still doing rides?

Wow they are going on a blind attack against Uber without a clue its like mob mentality x1000 no thought process at all. Millennials are messed up in the head.

why are they snowflakes but you are not? Seems like you are the one who gets offended easily.

 

[fskimospy]

Uber continued to carry passengers—many of them protesters rallying in support of detainees—to the airport. However, the company announced shortly after 730pm Eastern that it would temporarily suspend surge pricing, in recognition that demand would be unusually high.

Still, users—angered by the fact that the company didn't completely halt service in solidarity—lashed out by vowing to delete their Uber applications. Some pledged to switch to competitor Lyft, even though Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was one of the first Silicon Valley chiefs to come out against the Trump travel ban.

Can someone explain? So why Lyft? It seems Uber was against the Travel ban yet somehow they are banned but why not Lyft if they are still doing rides?

Wow they are going on a blind attack against Uber without a clue its like mob mentality x1000 no thought process at all. Millennials are messed up in the head.

Speaking of no thought process you apparently have no idea what it is you're ranting about, which is ironic. People were not angry with Uber for continuing service during the 'strike', they were angry that Uber eliminated surge pricing for rides from the airport only during the strike, meaning they were not just not joining in the strike, they were actively undermining it.

So that's why Uber and not Lyft. How hard is it to read up a little on something before criticizing it? Too special of a snowflake to read?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Speaking of no thought process you apparently have no idea what it is you're ranting about, which is ironic. People were not angry with Uber for continuing service during the 'strike', they were angry that Uber eliminated surge pricing for rides from the airport only during the strike, meaning they were not just not joining in the strike, they were actively undermining it.

So that's why Uber and not Lyft. How hard is it to read up a little on something before criticizing it? Too special of a snowflake to read?

lmao. Charge surge pricing and you're profiteering, don't charge surge pricing and you're reducing service. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

[Hugo Drax]

That makes no sense, so they eliminate surge pricing so that people do not get impacted by high pricing during high demand, they Millennials pout. But if they did not do this then the Millenials will pout because Uber is not price gouging during the strike. They had no issue using Uber to go to the protests, it seems someone rang the outrage alarm and like good lemmings they follow.

They are just looking for outrage anyway they can get it. I think it is hilarious.

 

[jman19]

The free market at work.

 

[fskimospy]

lmao. Charge surge pricing and you're profiteering, don't charge surge pricing and you're reducing service. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I mean I'm sure you don't need it explained as to why selectively lowering your prices in one location for the exact length of a protest might be seen as an attempt to undermine it?

 

[Hugo Drax]

lmao. Charge surge pricing and you're profiteering, don't charge surge pricing and you're reducing service. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The funny thing is they were using Uber all day to go to the protests so they can get their next protest tour of duty badge until Uber made a tweet that surge pricing was not in effect. Then someone rang the outrage alarm and everyone followed suit like a school of fish.

 

[fskimospy]

That makes no sense, so they eliminate surge pricing so that people do not get impacted by high pricing during high demand, they Millennials pout. But if they did not do this then the Millenials will pout because Uber is not price gouging during the strike. They had no issue using Uber to go to the protests, it seems someone rang the outrage alarm and like good lemmings they follow.

They are just looking for outrage anyway they can get it. I think it is hilarious.

Exactly, they lowered their prices so the strike had less effect. It's hilarious that you can't understand something this simple.

 

[Hugo Drax]

I mean I'm sure you don't need it explained as to why selectively lowering your prices in one location for the exact length of a protest might be seen as an attempt to undermine it?

That is what you choose to read into it. But keep the outrage going.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I mean I'm sure you don't need it explained as to why selectively lowering your prices in one location for the exact length of a protest might be seen as an attempt to undermine it?

Alternatively it could be seen as a way to support getting people there that want to be. Your narrative is incomplete regardless, there are plenty of people making this an issue about Uber operating period.

 

[fskimospy]

That is what you choose to read into it. But keep the outrage going.

I'm not outraged, haha, but it appears you are easily triggered by things you don't even understand.

 

[werepossum]

Wait - are the special snowflakes are outraged because they aren't being charged more, or because everyone except themselves isn't being charged more?

 

[fskimospy]

Alternatively it could be seen as a way to support getting people there that want to be. Your narrative is incomplete regardless, there are plenty of people making this an issue about Uber operating period.

No it couldn't, as Uber only suspended surge pricing FROM the airport, not to it. You don't seem to know what you're talking about either.

As for my narrative being incomplete I have no idea what you mean. The decision to use Lyft instead of Uber was exactly for this reason.

 

[fskimospy]

Wait - are the special snowflakes are outraged because they aren't being charged more, or because everyone except themselves isn't being charged more?

As best as I can tell some conservative special snowflakes are outraged that someone else is angry about something.

It's pretty funny how they don't notice the irony, wouldn't you agree?

 

[the DRIZZLE]

Exactly, they lowered their prices so the strike had less effect. It's hilarious that you can't understand something this simple.

That is not necessarily the case. Surge pricing has two effects: lowering demand and increasing the supply of drivers. It's difficult to know for sure from the outside but it's possible that suspending surge resulted in few total rides occurring from the airport because it didn't pull in additional drivers. It depends on the relative elasticities of supply and demand. IMO the most probably explanation for Uber suspending surge is to avoid claims on profiteering.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

No it couldn't, as Uber only suspended surge pricing FROM the airport, not to it. You don't seem to know what you're talking about either.

As for my narrative being incomplete I have no idea what you mean. The decision to use Lyft instead of Uber was exactly for this reason.

Is there a way to verify that this suspended surge pricing only from the airport? Uber seems to be claiming otherwise, but obviously I wouldn't take their word at face value. Further, the narrative includes Uber's CEO being associated with Trump, and with operating at all. Meaning, this is about more than "strikebreaking".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-against-refugee-ban/?utm_term=.efdb60da5669

 

[Hugo Drax]

No it couldn't, as Uber only suspended surge pricing FROM the airport, not to it. You don't seem to know what you're talking about either.

As for my narrative being incomplete I have no idea what you mean. The decision to use Lyft instead of Uber was exactly for this reason.

You are still assuming they are doing this to undermine the strike. And lyft is technically undermining the strike by providing service instead of halting services.

Take the bus otherwise you are another hypocrite looking for another outrage trophy for the week,

 

[fskimospy]

Is there a way to verify that this suspended surge pricing only from the airport? Uber seems to be claiming otherwise, but obviously I wouldn't take their word at face value. Further, the narrative includes Uber's CEO being associated with Trump, and with operating at all. Meaning, this is about more than "strikebreaking".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-against-refugee-ban/?utm_term=.efdb60da5669

As per Uber, surge pricing is based on pickup location, not destination. Suspending surge pricing at JFK only affects people being picked up at JFK.

https://help.uber.com/h/e9375d5e-917b-4bc5-8142-23b89a440eec

The narrative isn't about them operating at all, the people pushing users to switch to Lyft are abundantly aware that Lyft was operating then too.

I personally don't think it was Uber's intent and frankly even if it was I wouldn't care. I just found it funny that people were getting super angry about other people being angry about a subject they clearly didn't understand. Haha.