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• matchbok 9y ago
  Please present an argument, not a link. This is hacker news, not reddit.
  • stretchwithme 9y ago
    Point taken. My argument is that the US had plenty of competition in transportation before it was regulation squelched it. If people are making a living driving ONE person around, how is it that they would be unable to make money driving MULTIPLE people around? It certainly can become unprofitable if government decides to operate large inflexible vehicles that are often empty and that stop constantly. Or whose driver's compensation is not justified by the volume of customers served. You can take any ordinarily profitable enterprise and find ways to make it unprofitable. But you can only sustain that if you can subsidize it with revenues from other activities, like collecting taxes. Trying to compete with someone that doesn't need to make a profit is also very difficult.