Either way, 2 years ago, an Uber from the airport to the strip was $12-15.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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That makes sense, thanks for the insight!
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The cloud is still pretty cheap. Getting cheaper if anything.
reminds me of when when banks introduced ATMs as a method to "reduce costs for the consumer" but it became a profit center, paid for by those same consumers. no consumers saved a dime
Don’t blame tech, blame the bait-and-switch business model of loss leading products.
Uber never made money because they chose to undercut prices of all competitors and bleed them out.
I’d argue that newer streaming companies (those founded by studios, such as Disney +) did the same thing by roping in customers before jacking up prices.
It may be the “fault” of capitalism, but consider it was capitalism that birthed streaming in the first place. In the long term, the expectation would be a better solution will surface in reference to streaming.. the same way streaming was a solution to cable. Thus is the business cycle.
Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable.
Umm, are people coming over from an alternate universe? Cable was much more expensive and limited, streaming forced it to reform.
Ubers cost as much as taxis.
This shitty claim sounds false, specially with the antics taxis perform to make trips longer. If it does have any ring of truth, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it comes from having to acquiesce to the taxi sector, because they really cannot compete otherwise.
cloud is no longer cheap.
No shit, renting is more expensive in the longterm than owning something yourself? Tell me more.
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Techno feudalism is the keyword.
That reminds me of the gymnastics people have to do in the UK. There they have the BBC, which is technically public television but anyone that partakes on it needs to pay a heavy fee per year - and the devices legally deemed to be subject to that fee is ever increasing. In order to avoid paying that fee, people now need to have no television sets, no computers, no smartphones, no nothing.