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Yup. They clearly have an agenda that's more than just doing business. If all they wanted to do is make money for shareholders, they'd just comply with local re
by hughw 10y ago
Yup. They clearly have an agenda that's more than just doing business. If all they wanted to do is make money for shareholders, they'd just comply with local regulations. They must be thinking for the verrrry long term, if they are planning on changing the structure of democracies to allow them to operate as they please.
Edit: To wit, appealing to the Texas legislature to overrule Austin's popular referendum.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoNot sure about their long-term planning. It seems to me they're doing "just" business pretty well. Their strategy seems to be universally to burn money on lawyers so that local authorities can't ban them until they get to stay due to popular demand. It seems to be evidence of audacity, not necessarily of a long-term strategy.
- jhayward 10y agoI agree there is a deeper agenda to create a Libertarian structure so that government can't interfere in their operations. This is made clear by the idea that a $60 billion dollar silicon valley company finds it "impossible" to create a seamless, frictionless method of obtaining fingerprints from drivers as part of their on-boarding process. It's ludicrous on its face. I'd be happy to do the project for just what they spent on the failed referendum in Austin. Having predictable and uniform standards for Texas state-wide seems to make sense to me. Uber should be careful what they wish for, though, because the last quote I heard from one of the legislative committee chairman controlling such a bill was "as long as we get fingerprints I think it's a good thing."
- hughw 10y agoThe $9M they spent in Austin on the referendum would have funded 30,000 completed license applications, with fingerprints.