<story><title>Uber Movement</title><url>https://movement.uber.com/cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>I mean, don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, this civil rights movement is valuable. But this is a movement that constantly says &amp;quot;fuck you&amp;quot; to the law (c.f. Rosa Parks) and fair work practices (the civil rights movement favored a &amp;quot;race to the bottom&amp;quot; between white and negro workers).&lt;p&gt;Uber is engaged in civil disobedience against unjust laws that exist to protect political insiders. When did this become a bad thing?</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Well except for the drivers that get paid less and less now. I mean we&amp;#x27;ll forget about all that once their self-driving vehicles start being deployed, right? Well until they kill people.&lt;p&gt;I mean don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, the data is valuable. But this is a company that constantly says &amp;quot;fuck you&amp;quot; to the law and fair work practices. Let&amp;#x27;s keep that in mind.</text></item><item><author>pdog</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s win–win–win. If cities make improvements to their transportation infrastructure based on this data, ultimately it helps Uber deliver better service to its customers.</text></item><item><author>jakozaur</author><text>My quess would be that Uber use it as a carrot for cities. Let Uber operate and we will give city official data and city planning tools for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>You have a very poor understanding of what civil disobedience is.&lt;p&gt;As MLK wrote, &amp;quot;One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;That is manifestly not what Kalanick is doing. He broke laws for his own profit, has energetically avoided the penalties, demonstrates no particular interest in justice, and certainly doesn&amp;#x27;t care about the conscience of the community.&lt;p&gt;I also think the &amp;quot;political insiders&amp;quot; thing is just crocodile tears. From his behavior, Kalanick has no problem with industrial interests having outsized power; he just wants to be the one with that power.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.africa.upenn.edu&amp;#x2F;Articles_Gen&amp;#x2F;Letter_Birmingham.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.africa.upenn.edu&amp;#x2F;Articles_Gen&amp;#x2F;Letter_Birmingham....&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber Movement</title><url>https://movement.uber.com/cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>I mean, don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, this civil rights movement is valuable. But this is a movement that constantly says &amp;quot;fuck you&amp;quot; to the law (c.f. Rosa Parks) and fair work practices (the civil rights movement favored a &amp;quot;race to the bottom&amp;quot; between white and negro workers).&lt;p&gt;Uber is engaged in civil disobedience against unjust laws that exist to protect political insiders. When did this become a bad thing?</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Well except for the drivers that get paid less and less now. I mean we&amp;#x27;ll forget about all that once their self-driving vehicles start being deployed, right? Well until they kill people.&lt;p&gt;I mean don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, the data is valuable. But this is a company that constantly says &amp;quot;fuck you&amp;quot; to the law and fair work practices. Let&amp;#x27;s keep that in mind.</text></item><item><author>pdog</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s win–win–win. If cities make improvements to their transportation infrastructure based on this data, ultimately it helps Uber deliver better service to its customers.</text></item><item><author>jakozaur</author><text>My quess would be that Uber use it as a carrot for cities. Let Uber operate and we will give city official data and city planning tools for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lgas</author><text>I think part of the problem is that the parallels between Rosa Parks and Travis Kalanick are not as obvious to everyone as they are to you.</text></comment>