&gt; Uber HQ called and said they want to have a word with you.<p>I think this is a moral judgment cloaked as an ethical one.<p>For an example I&#x27;ll point to the perennial Rockefeller and Standard Oil. If you look on the surface, Rockefeller&#x27;s business practices look positively abhorrent. In an event called the Cleveland Massacre, he threatened to bury rival refiners unless they sold their business to him.<p>But look underneath, and the picture changes dramatically. The prices he offered for his rivals were so good that many of them started new refineries just so they could sell to Rockefeller. If they took Standard Oil stock, they became fabulously wealthy. Rockefeller was eminently fair in his business dealings. Those who claimed otherwise were doing so out of malice or ignorance.<p>I bet if you looked under the surface at Uber, you&#x27;d see a different picture than the one you see now. When I look at Uber, I see a company bravely fighting a political battle that absolutely has to be fought.<p>Rockefeller hired some really nasty guys that didn&#x27;t have the same ethical practices he did, they caused him no end of trouble, but in the end, he needed all the competent oilmen he could get his hands on to run Standard Oil. His executives got as far in the business as their ethics would allow.<p>Uber needs all the resources it can muster to change the way the country thinks about transportation and business. The people at the top can&#x27;t afford to sweat the details of everything their employees are doing.<p>I don&#x27;t know exactly which Uber business practices you&#x27;re referring to as unethical, but I bet if you critically analyzed them, you&#x27;d find that they&#x27;re either small and localized, (shenanigans in local markets against Lyft) or actually fair when you take a closer look. (their driver compensation structure) Those at the top can&#x27;t afford to get something so important wrong.