This month in serious ridesharing allegations

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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)

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: http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/66582151603

Rr

Ps Suck my nutz Techie Hipster Libertards

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