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lovichlast Wednesday at 8:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Yea. Do you not remember when uber was subsidizing the fuck out of rides? Inflation is a bitch but there’s no way I was getting rides across all of Boston for 2 dollars back in the mid 2010s due entirely to inflation


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JumpCrisscrosslast Wednesday at 8:15 PM

> Do you not remember when uber was subsidizing the fuck out of rides?

Sure. I'm not saying Uber's costs didn't go up. I'm arguing they haven't gone up faster than the competition. They never cornered the market to jack up rates because they never had that much pricing power. They loss lead to get a seat at the table, not to buy the whole table.