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If a business feels like regulations created by the government are not reasonable, it has all the right to decide to stop doing business. Government shouldn't b
by snitko 10y ago
If a business feels like regulations created by the government are not reasonable, it has all the right to decide to stop doing business. Government shouldn't be regulating such things in the first place, but since it does, it surely can't force businesses to continue working under them.
> but it doesn't seem entirely outrageous that the drivers of buses, taxis, and similar transportation services should have them.
It is outrageous. I mean, it's a vehicle. Not a spaceship, for gods sake. This person has licence and good rating in the app? Good enough for me. If it's not good enough for you, don't use Uber. What right do you (or government, for that matter) have to tell other people what to use or not, I really don't know.
- lern_too_spel 10y agoOne of them could take all of the other's business in Austin by integrating with a background check service, but they were both either too stubborn or too slow to implement integration with such a service in case their proposition failed. Now they're both losing business on top of the money already lost campaigning.
- laurentoget 10y agoI really think the fingerprinting is a red herring. I think they were just trying to set a precedent to simplify their regulatory landscape.
- snitko 10y agoIn case you didn't notice, it's not about fingerprints. It's about the principle. It's a fight between business and government. Government wants money and control, businesses show they can't be blackmailed like that and pull out. There is literally nothing Uber or Lyft did wrong. They have all the right in the world to take their business elsewhere. If I believed in democracy, I'd say people should be voting better next time, but I don't.
- lern_too_spel 10y ago> They have all the right in the world to take their business elsewhere. Nobody is claiming otherwise, just that they're stupid for leaving the profits to the taxi companies, who do comply with the background check laws. Either one of them could have become the dominant transportation player in Austin, but they were both too incompetent to make contingency plans.
- mindcrime 10y agoWhat right do you (or government, for that matter) have to tell other people what to use or not, None. A just law is no more than a collective extension to our individual right to self defense. And we have a moral duty to ignore unjust laws. http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html