100% Uber/Lyft propaganda? There's a difference between saying taxi drivers are evil, and saying that the taxi system is a corrupt special interest. The 'syst

100% Uber/Lyft propaganda? There's a difference between saying taxi drivers are evil, and saying that the taxi system is a corrupt special interest. The 'system' is not just drivers, in most large US Cities it's a few concentrated medallion owners, strongly motivated to lobby against diluting their share of the taxi market. Dilution could come from regulatory changes, or just allowing more medallions. What is a 'special interest' anyway? Medallion owners represented a concentrated minority of the population with strong motivation to push for policies that are neutral or harmful to the majority. But since the harm is spread among the many, and the benefit is concentrated in the few, the few are more organized and willing to expend time and money to achieve their goal. And yup now ride sharing apps are a new special interest. That's just the political economy. There's also the fact that in many cities the cab titans were operating like corrupt slumlords, while local law enforcement long seemed willfully ignorant. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/03/fallen-taxi-king-transfers-ownership-medallions-his-wife-amid-federal-probe/GM3lZWAnhZUIQGXQkhQFsO/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/03/fallen-taxi-kin...