The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
Meta - I am honestly surprised, and sightly appalled at the general attitude in these comments (and also in yesterday&#x27;s thread).<p>Uber has essentially not just broken laws, but outright exploited workers&#x2F;drivers... and people comment &quot;Aah but the local taxi mafia was bad&quot;...??!? I&#x27;m sorry but that does <i>not</i> justify exploiting workers. That does <i>not</i> justify using political influence to enter&#x2F;gain markets. This isn&#x27;t some messiah coming to save us all from the &quot;horridness of local transport&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that having Uber as a player is necessarily bad, mind you. But it&#x27;s possible to have some positive benefits for some people while hurting a lot of others. I sincerely doubt too many HN users have driven taxis, but my conversations with Uber&#x2F;regular taxi drivers hardly painted a favorable picture of Uber. (Nuance - please note that my taxi drivers doesn&#x27;t represent all drivers. There will be happy and sad drivers, my point being it&#x27;s not <i>always</i> sunshine and rainbows... which the article speaks about too.)<p>I wonder if this being a YC owned communication platform affects&#x2F;biases users (some of whom I&#x27;m sure are YC founders etc themselves), however the ratio of apathy&#x2F;&quot;taxis were already bad&quot; to &quot;Uber shouldn&#x27;t exploit workers, nothing justifies it&quot; is disappointingly low.<p>(I know this is a particularly ranty comment and I had kept quiet on the last thread but seeing the same type of comments here pushed me.)