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The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. The

The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. The government is forcing socialism on the upside and capitalism on the downside. Almost all information/research would serve a "public good" if it was converted from private to public. If the government forced an investment firm to reveal which companies they thought were the most undervalued in a market, many people would benefit from that knowledge. The question is, what right and what incentive structure promotes the generation of that knowledge. Theft is certainly not a structure that generates it long term.

schwap 10y ago
> The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free How so? Sharing this information is a condition of operating in an area. If that is unprofitable, Uber won't operate there.
kafkaesq 10y ago
The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. But they're not doing that work for "free". They're doing in exchange for the privilege of being able to run a large-scale business on one of the most highly-trafficked street grids on the planet. Which in turn certainly doesn't exactly come for "free" (and in fact costs many billions of dollars per year to run, involving thousands and thousands of people who certainly don't work for fee either), now does it. So Uber says they don't want to pay for that privilege? That they'd rather not have to comply with regulations (like every other business operator in any other damn category you can think of) because they're... special? That's fine, of course -- they just don't have to do business in NYC, then.

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The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. The

by DINKDINK 10y ago

schwap 10y ago
> The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free How so? Sharing this information is a condition of operating in an area. If that is unprofitable, Uber won't operate there.
kafkaesq 10y ago
The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. But they're not doing that work for "free". They're doing in exchange for the privilege of being able to run a large-scale business on one of the most highly-trafficked street grids on the planet. Which in turn certainly doesn't exactly come for "free" (and in fact costs many billions of dollars per year to run, involving thousands and thousands of people who certainly don't work for fee either), now does it. So Uber says they don't want to pay for that privilege? That they'd rather not have to comply with regulations (like every other business operator in any other damn category you can think of) because they're... special? That's fine, of course -- they just don't have to do business in NYC, then.