{"id":149,"date":"2016-06-03T01:51:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/03\/uber-spreads-its-innovative-convenience-to\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:06","slug":"uber-spreads-its-innovative-convenience-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/06\/03\/uber-spreads-its-innovative-convenience-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber spreads its innovative convenience to subprime auto leasing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brilliance of such innovations\/disruptions is that they maintain the systemic status quo. Why would anyone want to destroy the reliable value of poor people\u2019s vulnerability in the making of fortunes?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloom.bg\/1r0mH8l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bloom.bg\/1r0mH8l<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bloomberg spoke to five auto-finance experts. Most said the leases are expensive, even predatory, compared with leases available to drivers with good credit. \u201cI\u2019d say the cost is greater than the benefit for your average driver,\u201d said Mark Williams, a lecturer at Boston University\u2019s business school who reviewed the terms of a blank lease agreement provided by Uber, along with some average weekly lease payments and a driver-reported account. \u201cThe terms, the way they\u2019re proposed, are predatory and are very much driven toward profiting off drivers rather than to facilitate an increase in drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/bloom.bg\/1r0mH8l'>Uber spreads its innovative convenience to subprime auto leasing. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brilliance of such innovations\/disruptions is that they maintain the systemic status quo. Why would anyone want to destroy the reliable value of poor people\u2019s vulnerability in the making of fortunes? http:\/\/bloom.bg\/1r0mH8l Bloomberg spoke to five auto-finance experts. Most said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/06\/03\/uber-spreads-its-innovative-convenience-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uber","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/05\/23\/an-uber-non-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":0},"title":"An Uber non-scandal","author":"aslam","date":"May 23, 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You\u2019re Willing to Pay - Bloomberg Charging what the market will bear isn\u2019t controversial. 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