This statement may be nice to believe in, but it is wishful thinking:<p>"You should see bad eudaimonics as a deferred cost: every bit of well-being that you destroy will one day have to be repaid in some way."<p>There is no cosmic law of "karma." It is a type of logical fallacy, one that may make us feel good, but it is not real.
Despite all the crises, Uber the service seems to be running fine with no discernible impact. Maybe less is more, as far as headquarters is concerned. The more execs leave, the fewer management initiatives, and the greater the chance of profitability.
As much as I want Uber to implode for all the negative things it has done, I don't believe that it is, just like I don't believe the big American banks will despite all the negative things they have done. If anything, I see companies that create garmonbozia, not eudaimonia, flourishing.
This is an idea that I _want_ to believe, but the piece lacks substance. The author seems insistent that this is universal truth, but doesn’t provide any examples outside of Uber and (barely) Facebook. What other companies are out there that have suffered consequences by acting antisocial?
The thing to learn from Uber is that Uber is losing because it is unethical? As if companies that are succeeding or are avoiding sanctions <i>are</i> ethical. Here's the concluding paragraph of this essay if you want to preview its inane arguments:<p>> <i>People like things that are bad for them. But in good ways. Staying out all night dancing till the sun comes up is fun. It might be harmful to your health, your job, and maybe even your relationship, but for precisely those reasons, it’s good for the soul. These things? They’re too often just bad in a bad way.</i>
Here I thought it might be a good overview on corporate strategy and how things went wrong at Uber. But I open this only to read about Uber's bad "karma" is biting them. The problem is a similar article could be written for say Snapchat too but then they are doing moderately fine hence nothing to learn from them, at least for now.
Uber has good karma. The writer of this article clearly had no post traction experience.<p>They have an investment thesis that isn't playing out as planned due to regional push back. Economics.<p>However, Kalanick should never have written a public apology as that gave journalists and their SJW counterparts grounds to stand on.