Steve’s argumemt is explicitly bad, but the original post doesn’t say that better arguments exist. And “Uber exploits workers?” isn’t a settled question like, say, “vaccines cause autism?” or “new species develop from existing species.” so the author shouldn’t presume that the audience is totally familiar with the relative merits of both (or either) side(s), and can recognize that Steve is making a relatively poor argument for his point.
And the overall structure pattern-matches to straw man fallacy. Perhaps that’s the only thing that needs to be lampshade? If instead of ’Steve” the character is called “Scarecrow” (and then call the other one Dorathy, for narrative consistency/humor)
Steve’s argumemt is explicitly bad, but the original post doesn’t say that better arguments exist. And “Uber exploits workers?” isn’t a settled question like, say, “vaccines cause autism?” or “new species develop from existing species.” so the author shouldn’t presume that the audience is totally familiar with the relative merits of both (or either) side(s), and can recognize that Steve is making a relatively poor argument for his point. And the overall structure pattern-matches to straw man fallacy. Perhaps that’s the only thing that needs to be lampshade? If instead of ’Steve” the character is called “Scarecrow” (and then call the other one Dorathy, for narrative consistency/humor)