Uber y Cabify

¿Qué opináis de estos sistemas de transporte? ¿Los habéis utilizado alguna vez? A mí me vino muy bien el años pasado en el mad cool, cuando era imposible encontrar un taxi, utilice la app de cabify y llegó en menos de 10 min.

pero son cosas diferentes, no?

En España es casi lo mismo, ambos tienen conductores que poseen una licencia VTC. En España aun no han dejado a uber tener conductores particulares.

Yo uso Uber en USA y UK, y otra que se llama Lyft cuando hay mucha demanda y los precios de Uber están demásiado altos.
Cómodo a más no poder, poder seguir el coche que te va a recoger a tiempo real y saber lo que vas a pagar de antemano sin andar con propinas y ostias me parece uno de los mejores inventos del siglo.

Uber ofrece viajes por Madrid a cinco euros sin importar la duración del trayecto

http://www.elmundo.es/motor/2017/05/03/5909a6ba22601d642d8b460b.html

Hesse, ¿la chica de tu avatar?

Nosotros usamos mucho ambos y muy contento. En Cabify hasta te ofrecen agua. También usamos el emov y el car2go, y los taxistas se comportan como troles cuando te ven en un coche de esos.

El otro día estuve por Sevilla y usamos 3 cabifies, y es tal y como dice El Puto Fary. De una comodidad que asusta. Coches buenos (el último un Mercedes enorme) e impolutos, gente que se preocupa de dar un buen servicio (te ponen la radio que tú quieras y no la que ellos) porque al final hay un sistema de calificaciones, sin hablar de la comodidad y la tranquilidad que da saber que el precio es cerrado. Y sin calderilla de por medio.

Yo muy bien no sé que pensar en esta polémica entre taxis y este tipo de servicio, pero como los taxistas no se pongan las pilas.....

Yo no les he usado pero todo lo que sea tocar los cojones a los taxistas me parece correcto.

https://twitter.com/ElChisteDelDia/status/1013046848527978496

Empresas que son la definición perfecta de pan para hoy, hambre para mañana. Que les den mucho por el culo.

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https://twitter.com/Shine_McShine/status/1323909995151372290

https://twitter.com/EPeconomia/status/1326205538208722944

https://twitter.com/ridersxderechos/status/1367121545810874369

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/uber-cheats/#50-companies

Uber (Ch)eats (permalink)
Uber is not a business in the traditional sense. It's a "bezzle" ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it").

The only reason Uber was able to attain growth was because investors gave it billions to lose. First, it was the Saudi Royals, hoping to spend their way to a transportation monopoly.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/19/larval-pegasi/#long-con

When that didn't work, the company's investors suckered the public into taking their shares off their hands in an IPO premised on two things:

I. Self-driving cars

II. All buses and subways in the world being scrapped and replaced with Ubers.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/19/texas-lysenko/#unter

Neither of those things have happened, of course. Uber actually had to pay someone else $400m to "buy" the self-driving car division it sank $2.5b into (the resulting cars could not travel for one mile without a serious accident).

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/19/texas-lysenko/#unter

Replacing all the world's transit is also a long-shot. That means that Uber's bezzle is running out, forcing the company into ever-more-desperate measures to keep money flowing from suckers ("investors") who believe that a pile of shit this big must have a pony under it.

Measures like spending hundreds of millions of dollars on California's Proposition 22, which legalized worker misclassification. Measures like rampant wage-theft from drivers. Measures like waging legal wars against whistleblowers.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/19/texas-lysenko/#unter

Uber's "innovation" wasn't self-driving cars. It was cheating. Uber is really fucking good at cheating.

How good? Well, last year, Uber managed to dodge tax on $6b in global revenues by laundering its income through fifty Dutch shell companies.

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-shell-companies-5-billion-revenue-2021-5

A report from the Australian NGO Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR), reported in the Dutch press, describes Uber's tax evasion innovations as "the Champions League of tax avoidance."

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-goedkoop-ritje

It's quite a whirlwind of socially useless financial engineering, composed of obvious frauds like "selling" its IP to a Dutch subsidiary financed with a $16b "loan" from a Singaporean subsidiary, garnering 20 years' worth of $1b annual tax credits.

The Netherlands may be a bastion of progressive politics, but it's also one of the world's leading onshore-offshore tax havens, joining Cyprus, Luxembourg, Delaware, Wyoming and the City of London as a key player in the global money-laundry.

Its lax enforcement didn't just encourage Uber to create 50 shell companies – it also let the company get away with failing to file "mandatory" disclosures for many of these "businesses."

All of this redounds around the world – in India, Uber pays only half of the mandatory 6% tax owed by multinationals (India could really use that cash about now).