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It also gave you cab drivers who don't earn enough to be able to replace their vehicles.

You can cheer on "forces" like Uber all you like but I would prefer it if progress happened without criminal deception:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...

I don't see how anyone can read this and think the uber app is a net positive.

>>ecjhdn+(OP)
Citation needed on the "drivers who can't replace their vehicles" part. Lots of cities in the US have passed laws about how much such workers must be paid and I generally think the government is the one that should be solving that problem.

I read that whole article. I didn't know about the intentional strategy to send Uber drivers into likely violent situations. That's fucked up.

Most of that article seemed to focus on Uber violating laws about operating taxi services though. Sounds good to me? Like there's nothing intrinsically morally correct about taxi service operation laws. This sort of proves my point too. Some company was going to have to fight through all that red tape to get app-based taxis working and maybe it's possible to do that without breaking the law, but if it's easier to just break the law and do it, then whatever. I can't emphasize how much I don't care about those particular laws being broken and maybe if I knew more about them I'd even be specifically happy that those laws were broken.

>>ecjhdn+(OP)
There’s gotta be a middle ground. The registration system was shit and encouraged a ridiculous secondary market that kept a lot of people under someone else’s thumb too.

Why does everything keep getting worse? Why do people keep making less? We need to figure out the answers to these questions. And no, nobody here knows them.

>>dclowd+jw
Black cab regulation in London is not shit. It's simultaneously archaic and valuable; a cabbie can solve problems an Uber driver will never manage.

If there is a middle ground I'd like to think it involves not smashing through regulations that protect individual businesspeople (like cabbies) who have learned a difficult job.