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Uber did the world a favor by breaking the back of the taxi monopoly. But now they need to either clean up their act or go away.
by bdrool 9y ago
Uber did the world a favor by breaking the back of the taxi monopoly. But now they need to either clean up their act or go away.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Uber did the world a favor by breaking the back of the taxi monopoly. In much the same way that the capitalist class "did the world a favor" by breaking the politico-economic power monopoly of the nobility.
- bdrool 9y agoI'll just leave this here: http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/laura-washington-uber-solves-my-hailing-while-black-problem/ http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/laura-washington-uber-so...
- sverige 9y agoARTHUR: Well, I AM king... DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress-- WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do? ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? WOMAN: King of the who? ARTHUR: The Britons. WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again. DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
- anigbrowl 9y agoYou're talking like the taxi monopoly was a global monolith when in fact it was a local uncoordinated model that jurisdictions just copied from each other. IOW there was a taxi monopoly in most cities, but they're not all part of one big TaxiCorp.