"CEO Travis Kalanick's treatment of one of his drivers shows Uber's institutional sleazebaggery, seeing social responsibility as an outdated piece of apparatus"
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"Liberal outrage has been a chorus to Uber's apparently unstoppable rise, but it has never before been a bar to its expansion: the company continues to grow, even as it registers record-breaking revenue loss around the world, much of which it puts down to the inconvenience of still having to pay its drivers.
Given what we already knew about Uber's institutional sleaziness, why is this clip so shocking? Because it reveals an uncomfortable truth about the character of our modern power elites. Part of us would prefer to imagine the svengalis of exploitative businesses as polished, scheming villains, geniuses enviably unencumbered by such old-fashioned burdens as ethics and morality.
"From Trump down, these men would prefer us to picture them as competent and potent – a little brash, perhaps, but that's all part of how corporate power brands itself. This is why it matters that this video exposes Kalanick, one of the world's richest men, as a thoroughly unpleasant person."
[And as for Hammerson?
Ah, Hammerson!]
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