Uber and Lyft have a path to profits. Charge as much as a regular Taxi. Subsidizing riders with venture cash can't last forever. Somehow they think robot drivers will happen before they go titsup. Quite the gamble.

Facebook is the 2nd largest advertising network in the world. It generated in excess of 1.26 billion dollars in revenue the Q3 of 2012, a quarter after it went public, and had a net profit of 311 million dollars.

this was obvious. this was only a ploy to get seed money/VC/founders rich and screw everyone else. 

FIFY!

Well, LYFT always wanted to fuk UBER, so I guess they found the best way possible! “Ha Ha.  Try to get public now, losers”

Harley owners have soured me on the brand (seriously, fuck your noise). I won’t be buying an electric Harley for myself or my kid.  The sooner that company dies the better.

The gig economy is a trap meant to screw over poor and middle-class people, stealing their time and energy for little-to-no pay once you factor in the hidden costs. It’s a fiefdom in your phone. Don’t employ these services, don’t work for these services, it’s not worth it.

It goes further than that. If the CEO of any publicly traded company engaged in the petty self-dealing Trump has blatantly participated in as President he’d be fired and have a good shot at prison time.

Data is an over valued commodity.  Oh, that GPS app on the drivers phone is collecting data.  Great.  It does nothing to solve the actual problems of a vehicle navigating public roads with other drivers.  

If Trump’s proven anything; it’s that the old adage “You can shear a sheep many times but only skin him once” doesn’t necessarily hold up when it comes to his base of bumblefuck yahoos. 

“Trump will look at the Commerce Department’s recommendations on the matter”

Truly crazy practices at the top* of a nation put question marks around all kinds of things. “Will this car retain its value?” “Will parts for this car be available in 5 years?” “What kind of inflation will we see over the next few years?” “Will I still have a Job in 5 years?”

Like the Carrier plant the he ‘saved’ and then Carrier fired them all anyway? 

It screws people harder, but they won’t know it until the Repubs are done dumping cash into the economy at fire-sale rates. Then either half the government will be fired, putting them into the unemployment lines or on the street, or taxes will triple. God help us all. 

Except had we kept production in the US for the past 50 years, the working class would still have decent paying jobs and could afford the more expensive US-Made goods.  I agree that a change in policy will hurt the working class the most now, but it would not have gone down this path if it were not for irresponsible…

I seriously doubt it would cause people to downsize. Nobody wants a small car, so they’ll just take out a longer loan on a more expensive CUV/pickup.  The only external factor that seems to encourage downsizing is a huge spike in gas prices.

We don’t want the auto industry to become Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Airlines, Trump University and various other business entities that were run or heavily influenced by a moron who has no clue how to make a legitimate business work. 

with all this talk of tariffs... let’s just take a second to recognize that every attempt by american politicians to reduce foreign competitiveness has resulted in better foreign products.

Neutral: Tariffs only make sense to the sort of Simple Simon-ass motherf$$ker who has no idea how the global economy functions in 2019. “Durr, we block imports to create jobs! Make ‘Murica Great!” Because as we all know, shouting slogans and tweeting nonsense will cause factories and supply chains and logistics to…

Judging by the president’s angry racist mob of blind supporters and the fact he actually won...I have given up hope. So let’s embrace this s***show and put 25% tariffs in place. We can drive our US built cars with 99% foreign parts while the US eats itself from within!