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Comment by trixie_

6 years ago

It works great. All those management middle men of thousands of delivery and taxi companies have been replaced with software. Razor thin margins are enough to keep the servers running and a small team of developers managing it - for the entire planet.

It's difficult for any company to abuse their position as they're easily repalcable. So the margins will get lower, and more of the money paid by the customer will go directly to the supplier. Efficiency incarnate.

Uber is laying off 800 engineers tomorrow, they have thousands. All of them making salaries probably in the range of 250K-500k. Not really a small team of developers.

  • Numbers are relative? Compared to the management overhead of all the taxi companies in the world it is orders of magnitude smaller. And after today it is 800 people smaller on top of that. So yes, very small, very efficient.