He is trying to make it sound like they are trying to do better. Note the layers there. It's tactics.
Doing nothing while sounding like you're trying to do something will maybe be a little more sustainable for Uber than doing nothing while putting on a pair a of sunglasses and yelling "This is capitalism, baby!" with a big grin, which would be my summary of the previous tactic.
The end goal remains to do nothing, of course, but maybe they've accepted that they need to send more people to more meetings with the Government and pay for a ghost-written whiny NYT opinion piece once in a while.
We just went through 4 years of the nu80s again. Which puts us on track for nu90s.
As far as I can remember, "This is capitalism, baby!" didn't play quite so well with the latter crowd.
Then again, free trade and outsourcing did. So maybe Uber's new plan is to complain about the cost of US workers and hire remote drivers in lower CoL nations?
Doing nothing while sounding like you're trying to do something will maybe be a little more sustainable for Uber than doing nothing while putting on a pair a of sunglasses and yelling "This is capitalism, baby!" with a big grin, which would be my summary of the previous tactic.
The end goal remains to do nothing, of course, but maybe they've accepted that they need to send more people to more meetings with the Government and pay for a ghost-written whiny NYT opinion piece once in a while.