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Airline pilots used to make more money too when airline pricing was regulated. Cabs suck ass in most areas of the country because of government regulations gra
by pnw_hazor 9y ago
Airline pilots used to make more money too when airline pricing was regulated.
Cabs suck ass in most areas of the country because of government regulations granted them exclusive rights at the expense of the consumer. Turns out the consumer will use Uber or Lyft instead of cabs if given a choice. Nothing is stopping cabs from competing.
Also, see Cable TV/broadband Companies.
- busterarm 9y agoThis was never up to debate. My comments were purely based on the parent commenter saying that "driving a cab was never a decent living, ask any cabbie", which is false. This is a derail. Does raise an interesting discussion of whether consumer convenience should always be optimized for though. If you look at clothing, it's convenient and cheap because of an exploitative labor market built on appalling wages and child labor. Maybe I don't want the pilot of my plane or driver of my car working under those conditions though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot