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274. Uber’s Politics of Low Expectations (ft. Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh)

This Machine Kills

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Uber Kinte: The Race Politics of Uber

The race question for Uber was the subject of op-eds in the Washington Post and the New York Times 10 years earlier. It's not as if Uber is disrupting a, a fantastic system, you know, it's like they are coming in and seeing a system that is full of cracks which has all of these real actual problems. And they are presenting themselves as a solution to those problems. In some ways, they were a solution toThose problems. But nonetheless, they were better for people's actual experience of transportation or trying to have access to services like taxis and so on.

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