🔗 Just in Case You Thought Life was Fair

The Information reporting on the rape and spillage of an entire global industry …. and they barely bat an eye.
Waymo rides are 30% to 40% more expensive on average than Uber and Lyft on the same routes, according to a recent report by rideshare data analytics firm Obi. The firm analyzed more than 700 ride options across the three apps over the course of a month and found that Waymo’s prices averaged $18.06 per mile, higher than Uber and Lyft, which averaged $13.45 and $12.86, respectively.
What Happened.
1)‘medallion’ costs will have been removed.
2) people costs will have been removed.
3) competition will have been removed.
4) price of the cars in the fleet significantly reduced.
AND the profits from this venture will be consolidated back to our corporate headquarters.
Wow that sounds fantastic - how quick could you execute that plan (asks said VC)
oh - beginning to end? What 15 years?
VC it‘s 2025 - it took 16 years - why so long?
Oh we hit a few bumps in the road if you’ll pardon the pun .. we had to break a few laws, got thrown out of a few cities .. even countries and in the end get the laws changed to suit our business model. Without that we’d have cracked the whole thing in 11 or 12 - but the good news is that as we changed the laws, we worked out how not to pay any taxes and remove money out of circulation in every single country we operate in. So profitability is even higher than we predicted.
No - I’m pretty sure that I am not missing anything.
Law enforcement spoke with several members of Boelter’s family, including his wife, who was carrying passports and cash when police stopped her near a convenience store about 70 miles north of the shootings, an official said.
Coincidental I’m sure.
What was I thinking? I knew it wasn’t my kind of movie. And still I watched and … yeah. No.
I think I am going to have to read 1975.
Tяump looks so happy … in his sleep.
🔗📹 a day of celebration … one of the better summaries of NoKings Day .. and on Facebook of all places.
If you are keeping track of - the second part of my ‘Ages’ series has just been published on Substack.
The Age of Experience is rising even as the Age of Reason declines. Not to erase it, but to end its monopoly. Power is shifting from rigid logic and control to lived insight, emotional depth, and adaptive thinking, where success depends on how well you sense, respond, and connect. How then does Business adapt to survive? It must relearn its purpose: to serve people. To feel as well as think, to listen as well as plan, and to treat people not as inputs to optimise, but as meaning-makers to support. A feeling business? How? Well that’s down to the people in the business.
🎬 Wait … Foundation 3 is on the way? Haven’t even started Foundation 2
It was ok. Something to watch. Didn’t like ending.