Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

I hate to say this, but you need to dig deeper into the Seger discography. Enjoy.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Yes, apparently

An office in the city, secretary pretty, who'll take dictation on my knee.
 

My re line is from an old Bob Seger song called "U.M.C."

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

What is "the UMC"?

On behalf of the rest of us, I apologize for calling you out for sucking on Yellow Cab's dick.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

I never defended the cabbies, indeed, I think I called them thugs above. But, whatever you think gets you off for sucking on Travis Kalanick's misogynistic SV cock - is it as overinflated as his head?

UMC is the Upper Middle Class, they of whom Bob Seger sings.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Hmmmm.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

I don't think Uber usage is limited to the upper middle class. That's certainly where it started, but it's expanding. Of course, not a lot of poor people ride taxis, so....

But Uber isn't gutting the economy. It's gutting the people who were sitting on their asses collecting medallion fees. Those guys were already fucking over the workers who had to pay those extortion fees. So now they are coming out as icons of the good capitalist who helps his workers -- and you are buying into that? Sheesh.

Never heard the name "Travis Kalanick" before -- I'll assume he's connected to Uber, and so brought a disruptive technology into play, which has resulted in, among other things, the fucking dispatchers actually picking up the phone when I call (not on weekends of course -- let's not get carried away). Competition works.

The whole "sharing economy" concept is troublesome to me, to the extent that it is a result or symptom of people lacking full-time work and having to piece work together. But your anger here seems misdirected, at a symptom rather than at a cause.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

you can select several levels of uber car, from luxo-SUV down to beaters like you drove in college. I assume the lower levels are used by poorer peoples.

it is creating work actually, as you and RT point out. the UMC is using it at times when they otherwise would drive. in that sense it is a transfer from the rich to the poor. you'd think ggg and Ty would support it.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

I don't remember what you said, but enjoy this.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

The first rule of UMC Club is, Check Your Self-Awareness at the Door.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Dude, come on, you're right there, and you don't understand that Uber (to say nothing of Travis and his wingman Emil) is the poster-child for assholic misogynistic culture in Silicon Valley? But it's ok because Ayn Rand says you're free to be an asshole and assholes ought to rule the world?

I hate to tell you, but you're in the tank with Rand Paul's penis.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Um, okay.

IIRC, you represent a lot of Indian companies. Be sure to pass your views on how the need to ensure compliance with US wage-and-hour standards, regardless of whether those laws apply to them, or they will just be helping the UMC gut the economy with our desire for cheaper stuff.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

What I like about Uber is that I have my own rating, and it's within my control (mostly) to keep it so high that no Uber driver would ever not pick me up. Cabbies are racist assholes who frequently refuse to pick me up. So their business model can go straight down the drain for all I care.

TM

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Yeah, most of my Indian clients don't need to be reminded of that. They tend to be the kind of biotech company that has a modest number of well-paid highly educated personnel, whether they are here or in India. But, that's OK, I understand you think all India has to offer is cheap labor to staff call centers rather than scientists who develop ground breaking therapies.

Actually, the biggest comp issue we have in dealing with India is incentivizing people with equity. Without the experience of many companies where multi-gazillionaires have been made on equity, you tend to get employees who value cash more than equity. There are now some occasional cases where we may pay a real hot-shot Indian scientist more than we'd pay their US equivalent, but put a bunch of it in bonus and deferred comp, because you can give the woman in the US a bunch of equity to incentivize her instead.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Ah -- didn't realize that you represented only good guys.

But, since you are now breaking out the "racist" card, I'm going to bow out of this discussion.