One more note on prop 22 is that Uber fills a gaping hole left by the austerity measures and racist geographies that gutted and continue to disallow better access to public transportation across the state. Austerity breeds corporate greed and allows them to take us hostage

Then, as further demand and ride shares go to Uber the city comes to rely on and justify further cuts because of the inability of public service to compete with an rideshare business model whose entire goal is to privatize public transportation or destroy it

The reason why Uber is choosing not to make money right now is because their aim is to monopolize — profit is never the goal, it’s to control a market share which includes the further gutting of public transportation

So basically it’s disingenuous to pin our loss in the battle over prop 22 on the spending, and important to hold our city planners, app users, and taxpayers accountable too, because this is simply the ultimate logic of a neoliberal process of segregation & target austerity