[Shamrockrystal]

Anyone who has taken any economics or law courses should be familiar with game theory (stag game, prisoner's dilemma, etc).

Games can be designed to prevent individual players from collaborating by rewarding defection. That's what has kept collective action from working against Uber.

Consider that if a strike is being discussed among some drivers, others will realize that a reduction in driver fleet will drive up prices/surges, encouraging defectors to drive extra and earn big. Some drivers will sit out, others will defect (scabs), and the end result is a short-term equilibrium. Strikers get discouraged and return to work with no change in long-term equilibrium.

But with dollar surge, there is no incentive for drivers to defect during a strike. Most of the price increase would be going into Uber's pockets, not their own.

For this reason I am incredulous dollar surge will take hold. I believe Uber is super corrupt. I do not think they're dumb enough to create conditions that are so conducive to collective action.

 

[ibeam23]

Dollar Surge WILL go nationwide.

 

[ergo]

I think this went over everyone’ heads

 

[The Gift of Fish]

For this reason I am incredulous dollar surge will take hold.

Maybe it won't. It may be a money grab too far. Or maybe the driver pool is dumb enough to believe Uber's spiel about new surge being better than old surge. Hell, drivers are dumb enough to do the shared rides (Pool, Express, Line, Shuttle), so anything's possible I suppose.

 

[ibeam23]

Oh, it's coming. Uber knows drivers are against it but there's beer money ants willing to take any ride.

 

[ToughTommy]

Here's their game . We make the rules.
You don't like em quit. Game Over
Insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. We are expendable that is the message to me loud and clear and they DONT care about our welfare it's all about them and pleasing the big $ investors . We're the piss ants.

 

[Michael1230nj]

They understand what they are doing In Game Theory the Goal is to sustain the optimal result. They have an Exit Strategy Get to the I P O.

 

[Lightning1181]

They understand what they are doing In Game Theory the Goal is to sustain the optimal result. They have an Exit Strategy Get to the I P O.

Precisely the goal! Get to the IPO while the market is still ripe for the picking. Dawdle to long, investors lose interest and worse yet, the driver pool starts to stagnate and die off. As it is right now, the water is brackish and turning stagnant but not completely. It will only take one or two things to swing the scales against the mother company, which has been doing the high-wire act since TK was run out of town on a rail. Dara has a big balancing act to maintain, but there is an end in sight. If he can get this pig to market before it suffers a fatal cardiac, the VC's will get their $$ back and the future stockholders will be holding the bag (filled with broken promises and pig shyt)