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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 135 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I shared this before.

If you were a person of color, having Uber and Airbnb were a game changer. Taxis and hotels were awful from the 80s-2010s.

Taxis were racists and often wouldn't even pick you up. If they did, they often took you on a joyride. Hotels were absolute shit holes. Want to complain about your room? Go pound sand.

Those industries werent good for decades. And the disruption actually made car sharing much more consistent and hotel experiences better.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 47 points 4 months ago

Interesting perspective I never accounted before thank you. Cabs were notorious for not picking up black people. Can't speak for hotels.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Hotels prior to the Internet would do shitty things like:

Rates increased. Pay triple.
You want this moldy room or not.
Lie and say this is the only thing available in town

Hotels took a long time to actually get online checking. Most hotels were still requiring phone reservations way past 2010. And even if you get a reservation over the phone, they could always take one look at you upon arrival and reject it.

Airbnb forced them to move to the digital age. They forced them to show the pricing up front. They forced them to have photos of the room types. They made them take reservations and actually hold it, else face bad reviews.

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[-] Microw@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

At least here in a european countries, taxis and hotels were overregulated and monopolized af. The business models of Uber and Airbnb may not have been the best at the start, but like you say: it was a needed disruption.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 102 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fake money for criminals only because it was useful for me when I wanted to buy drugs while living in a place with little access to them

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago

It's especially funny since criminal enterprises have used "legal" currency since its invention. It's almost like criminals are gonna criminal, regardless of the "tender". 🤌🏽

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 89 points 4 months ago

Illegal delivery services are my fav ones. People are physically running or riding like slaves to get you tendies from a KFC across the street. No, you are probably not a person who needs that due to some health conditions, you are privileged to buy their labor cheap and further their abuse.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago

I'm disabled, and I'll very occasionally make use of them, but I hate them too. Fucking the workers, making my $11 chicken into $24, and complaining that they aren't profitable to both sides. Absolute bullshit.

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Uber

Airbnb

Bitcoin

OpenAI

did I guess right

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 55 points 4 months ago

I think the last two are more general, just cryptocurrency and generative AI respectively.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago

There are also at least three ubers where I'm at. It's more about a business model.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

As a fan of major environmental catastrophe, can I vote for all four?

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

I like the map that shows me where public toilets are. I don't know how that fits into this paradigm.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Illegal Gloryhole finder?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Nah that's a different app

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Extremely confident source of misinformation

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

I guess I've found the plagiarism machine the most entertaining so far.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

All of you pre Uber zealots are adorably naive. The cab industry is scum.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago

Uber is also scum tho. Seems there's always going to be something dodgy about getting into cars with random strangers.

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[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

replacing scum with even scummier scum? like, taxis were bad but they were fucking regulated.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

Probably illegal car company. AirBNB isn't terribly different (as a renter) from previous renting sites. I made some money off Bitcoin but even then it is so much wasted power for something not terribly useful. Generative AI and AI art is fun as a toy but eh, that's mostly it.

Being able to pretty easily get a cab from anywhere to anywhere (obviously within reason) is actually kind of a cool innovation to me. It's probably saved lives too by giving inebriated people an easy way to get a cab home. (But I'm not giving them a huge pass because I think they've been accused of finding ways to charge drunk people more.)

[+] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

You're not wrong, but you are leaving out some convenient parts of the experience. Yes, before, you could call a cab company and they would come pick you up and take you somewhere. But, you didn't know how long it would take for your driver to pick you up. had no idea how much the ride would cost you, and there was a pretty good chance the driver wouldn't accept a credit card for payment whether it was company policy to or not.

When illegal cab companies came along, they forced competition by giving you realtime information on where your driver was and how long until they would pick you up, price estimates before your ride begins, and a guaranteed method of payment that isn't cash. Cab companies had to modernize with mobile apps, lower their prices to stay competitive, and improve the overall customer experience.

For as badly as the drivers are treated by the companies, the services were successful because the existing experience with established cab companies sucked.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Taxi accessibility varies wildly depending on where you are.

I lived in a small city (700k-ish people) for a decade and almost never saw a taxi on the streets. One morning, I locked my keys in the house and had to call a cab to take me to work. It took 30 minutes for a taxi to arrive. I lived literally one block away from the city's taxi depot.

A couple of years later, Uber hit the scene. With their service, I never waited more than 8 minutes for a ride anywhere in the city.

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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ this is cynical.

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[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Definitely Illegal hotel chain. It's actually weirdly exciting to me to go to an airbnb not knowing what amenities or rules to expect, compared to the standardized experience of a hotel.

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[-] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago

fake money for criminals is just money in general, at least some crypto currencies don't allow for tracking

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

at least some crypto currencies don’t allow for tracking

The blockchain explicitly tracks transactions between wallets.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

AirBnb by far is the worst.

[-] 58008@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Anonymous and untraceable internet traffic tool for paedophiles, data thieves and occasionally a journalist living under an oppressive regime. But mainly paedophiles.

[-] bc93@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I think the majority is actually people buying drugs online, but yeah, pedophiles are a big demographic on there.

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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

I used Tor once out of curiosity. Wanted to know what kind of stuff I could run into. I FAFO. I don't use Tor anymore.

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[-] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

All money is fake.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago

I guess? It's social construct what we all agree to because trading 20 bushels of wheat for a chicken is a pain in the ass.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

That's 1200lbs of wheat for one chicken. You've been getting ripped off.

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