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Does anyone know why I would be downvoted for taking the time to explain what is going on. Does someone have a problem with lowering overly high taxi fares. U

Does anyone know why I would be downvoted for taking the time to explain what is going on. Does someone have a problem with lowering overly high taxi fares. Uber has been doing that which is a good thing.

asimuvPR 10y ago
Don't take it personal. It might be some uber fans thinking you are attacking uber. There are a lot of religions here on hn. :)
- meeper16 10y ago
  You are a wise being.
DenisM 10y ago
This is the cosmic microwave background of this forum. Lots of posts get down-voted in the first few seconds of them being posted, and then recover over the next few minutes.
abannin 10y ago
It's much easier to down vote something you don't want to be true than to engage in intelligent discussion. And to answer your question: everyone wants the benefits of economic efficiency but none of the costs. It's much easier to say "low skilled labor should be paid more" rather than "let's increase the value of labor". Also, an easy counter argument is that Uber is engaging in rent seeking against it's drivers. I don't think this has very much merit given the liquidity of driving labor.
- abannin 10y ago
  Downvoted with no comment! Oh, the irony.
  - dang 10y ago
    It breaks the HN guidelines to go on about downvotes like this. Please don't.
powera 10y ago
There are barriers to entry to most jobs than don't fit your saying they are all harmful "economic rents".
- abannin 10y ago
  Correct, but the article is advocating that full time drivers capture rents from the market. This is justified by implying (without evidence) that Uber is engaged in rent seeking against the drivers.
svanderbleek 10y ago
You didn't consider the article's arguments in depth and applied your standard template response to these issues.
dang 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197479 and marked it off-topic.

asimuvPR 10y ago

Don't take it personal. It might be some uber fans thinking you are attacking uber. There are a lot of religions here on hn. :)

meeper16 10y ago
You are a wise being.

DenisM 10y ago

This is the cosmic microwave background of this forum. Lots of posts get down-voted in the first few seconds of them being posted, and then recover over the next few minutes.

abannin 10y ago

It's much easier to down vote something you don't want to be true than to engage in intelligent discussion. And to answer your question: everyone wants the benefits of economic efficiency but none of the costs. It's much easier to say "low skilled labor should be paid more" rather than "let's increase the value of labor". Also, an easy counter argument is that Uber is engaging in rent seeking against it's drivers. I don't think this has very much merit given the liquidity of driving labor.

abannin 10y ago
Downvoted with no comment! Oh, the irony.
- dang 10y ago
  It breaks the HN guidelines to go on about downvotes like this. Please don't.

powera 10y ago

There are barriers to entry to most jobs than don't fit your saying they are all harmful "economic rents".

abannin 10y ago
Correct, but the article is advocating that full time drivers capture rents from the market. This is justified by implying (without evidence) that Uber is engaged in rent seeking against the drivers.

svanderbleek 10y ago

You didn't consider the article's arguments in depth and applied your standard template response to these issues.

dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197479 and marked it off-topic.