Why is this comment being grayed? Despite the language, this is a legitimate rebuttal. > I love how people are now all of a sudden defending the "Taxi regulat

Why is this comment being grayed? Despite the language, this is a legitimate rebuttal. > I love how people are now all of a sudden defending the "Taxi regulations" as if an artifical monopoly that was serving no one's best interests except for the monopoly was somehow a great thing. Conjecture, disregarding. > It's a lazy argument, especially for HN where old industries with arcane rules are meant to be broken. I cannot refute this. > calling a cab 1 hour before you needed it was required, and you wouldn't know if they would actually come or not This is still very true. > after waiting 1 hr they didn't come, you would be out of luck. This is true. > in every city where Uber pops up transportation gets better. This is the only thing I could come close to refuting, but it'd be an argument built wholly on anecdotal evidence. We should not be so easily provoked.