The benefits of something like Uber is much bigger than this article tries to pretend with its reductionist approach.
Imagine how much capital and wealth will be freed up when car ownership becomes optional across ever bigger areas?
Imagine all the alternative new technologies and even benefits at the level of alternative individual consumption that can be freed up by this?
Despite all the protestations from bleeding heart liberals, these tech innovations in aggregate (with some being destructive and others constructive) is an overall increase in economic efficiency.
Of course they result in an overall increase in efficiency. But the poor do not get to benefit from that increased efficiency because they do not have enough to buy into the new services and are left with deteriorated quality for the services they can afford.
Imagine how much capital and wealth will be freed up when car ownership becomes optional across ever bigger areas?
Imagine all the alternative new technologies and even benefits at the level of alternative individual consumption that can be freed up by this?
Despite all the protestations from bleeding heart liberals, these tech innovations in aggregate (with some being destructive and others constructive) is an overall increase in economic efficiency.