AKA The "Sharing Economy" Is A Racist Sexist Feudal Economy - Uber/Lyft
   edition

   Pando... Locked, provides the blurb:

     This month in serious ridesharing allegations
     Nathaniel Mott
     October was defined by a study published by the National Bureau of
     Economic Research which revealed that many Uber and Lyft drivers are
     sexist. The landmark study found that drivers in Seattle made
     African American passengers wait longer to be picked up, that Boston
     drivers often took female passengers along more expensive routes,
     and that drivers in both cities cancelled trips much more often if
     the prospective passenger had an African American-sounding name.
     These findings are particularly damning because ride-hailing
     services are supposed to help people avoid these types of problems.
     Can’t hail a cab? Book an Uber. Don’t trust a taxi driver to get you
     home safe? Use Lyft. That’s the idea, anyway, but anyone who’s read
     these monthly wrap-ups knows that neither of these services are as
     safe as they seem...

   Here's the dox:

     Nber Working Paper Series
     Racial And Gender Discrimination In Transportation Network Companies
     Yanbo Ge
     Christopher R. Knittel
     Don MacKenzie
     Stephen Zoepf
     Working Paper 22776
     Abstract: Passengers have faced a history of discrimination in
     transportation systems. Peer transportation companies such as Uber
     and Lyft present the opportunity to rectify long-standing
     discrimination or worsen it. We sent passengers in Seattle, WA and
     Boston, MA to hail nearly 1,500 rides on controlled routes and
     recorded key performance metrics. Results indicated a pattern of
     discrimination, which we observed in Seattle through longer waiting
     times for African American passengers—as much as a 35 percent
     increase. In Boston, we observed discrimination by Uber drivers via
     more frequent cancellations against passengers when they used
     African American-sounding names. Across all trips, the cancellation
     rate for African American sounding names was more than twice as
     frequent compared to white sounding names. Male passengers
     requesting a ride in low-density areas were more than three times as
     likely to have their trip canceled when they used a African
     American-sounding name than when they used a white-sounding name. We
     also find evidence that drivers took female passengers for longer,
     more expensive, rides in Boston. We observe that removing names from
     trip booking may alleviate the immediate problem but could introduce
     other pathways for unequal treatment of passengers.

   Ps. I wrote up Lyft a few years ago.
   Nasty Nasty.

     All one has to do is read the whiny headlines and listen to people
     discuss the BART strike, even so-called anarchists, to know the only
     people the Bay Area’s hipster elite care about are themselves… Do
     note that Uber rideshare’s financial backers include Goldman Sachs.
     The article includes more information about the kind of financial
     scum “Hip Startups” are willing to collaborate with.

   Sharing Rides, Hoarding Profits: How the SF Bay area's technology elite
   are destroying poor & people of color's incomes by 'Disruptive
   Innovation' (link)

   [1]http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/64490895571

   Bonus Track:
   TaskRabbit...

     In summer 2012, Thiel’s (Peter Thiel, PayPal founder)
     venture-capital group Founders Fund became a key investor in the new
     ideological startup Taskrabbit. While it nominally exists to turn a
     profit, Taskrabbit is an ingenious vehicle for social engineering
     which aims to lessen the control of government not over money, but
     work. By exploiting high unemployment as an opportunity to diminish
     workers’ rights, Taskrabbit aims to create an alternate, privatized
     set of norms based on the labor paradigm of the 1920s: “liberty of
     contract.”
     The Ten Ninety Nihilists By Empire-Logistics, Libcom.

   Click through my tumblr:
   [2]http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/66582151603
   Rr
   Ps Suck my nutz Techie Hipster Libertards

References

   1. http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/64490895571
   2. http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/66582151603