The sharing economy only works in an atmosphere of high social trust. In other words, it only works with people who are honest, law-abiding, and responsible, which large parts of America are not.
As long as you have racially distinct communities with high crime rates, it makes sense to avoid people in those communities.
* Good for Uber! Regular cab companies can’t discriminate when a couple of cute little black women hail them and give an address at the worst project in town where their men will rob and beat the driver.
* It still amazes me that it apparently never occurred to anybody on the Left that their project to mass-shame white people might completely backfire.
Even if you take the Leftist narrative at face value, it ought to be obvious how stupid their plan was. If shaming and demoralizing American blacks just made the black community angrier, more insular, and more vulnerable to wacky conspiracy theories, why wouldn’t you expect whites to have the exact same reaction? If Jim Crow gave us the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam, why wouldn’t you expect Jim Snow to give us Pepe the Frog and the Alt-Right?
Bloomberg: Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men. Black people in Seattle using Uber and Lyft Inc. faced notably longer wait times to get paired with drivers than white customers. The findings come from a study published on Monday by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Washington.
“In many ways, the sharing economy is making it up as they go along,” said Christopher Knittel, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an author of the study. “A lot of this is a learning process, and you can’t expect these companies to have everything perfect right out of the gate.”
