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"devaluing working class people's taxi registration" read: a company that figured out their way around regulatory capture.
by digler999 10y ago
"devaluing working class people's taxi registration"
read: a company that figured out their way around regulatory capture.
- cowardlydragon 10y agoOr, made an app, and are using VC funds to dump on markets forcing out incumbents, and then will hike prices. But go ahead and subscribe to your objectivist utopian view. Oh evil government, when will you learn?
- digler999 10y ago> and then will hike prices. there's a reason why you get a flyer telling you how much a cab ride from JFK->Midtown costs and that cabs are only allowed to pick up passengers at the designated stop (creating 30m+ lines). But go ahead and believe theyre just "working class folks" and not scam artists.
- pessimizer 10y agoThe reason is to protect people arriving at the airport who are not familiar with the area or local taxi companies. But go ahead and believe that if there weren't a regulated standard rate for trips from the airport that they would charge you less.
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- pessimizer 10y agoOr, rather, a company whose entire business model is regulatory capture.