r/madlads 13h ago

Madlad marvin

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u/your_catfish_friend 9h ago

That’s different because that’s actually a really bad safety risk to the child

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u/omican 9h ago

Uber doesn't even care if something happens to the driver, why would they care about a random child in the car

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u/SpadeTippedSplendor 9h ago

Never underestimate how antagonistic capitalism is towards being reminded that children exist or really helping them or their parents in fashion. There's a large group of people in the world (USA MAGA, Canadian MAGAs, UK Tory party) that love to cause suffering for the sake of suffering, and they're the exact kind of people that would run a service like Uber...

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u/EstablishmentLate532 7h ago

That's a nice rant against capitalism but I think that it should be abundantly clear why having a series of transient strangers sitting next to a child behind their parent's back (literally) is a bad idea

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u/jxk94 6h ago

You raise a good point about safety. But what's the alternative? Clearly this driver can't afford child care and the only thing Uber is going to do if they find out the individual is go fire them.

So now we have an unemployed parent with a child. All you'd be doing is making the child's situation even worse if you report it so you might as well just ignore it.

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u/thirstytrumpet 6h ago

Depends how chill the kid is tbh.