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>(a NYC medallion is worth over $300K) $607,000 for individuals, $825,000 for corporate owners. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-06/nyc-taxi-medallion

by uvdiv 16y ago

>(a NYC medallion is worth over $300K) $607,000 for individuals, $825,000 for corporate owners. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-06/nyc-taxi-medallions-wheel-in-profits-rivaling-s-p-500.html http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-06/nyc-taxi-medalli... >a big fairness-of-competition issue which needs to be addressed. I think it's transparently obvious that the sole purpose of these regulations is to prevent fairness of competition, to enforce an artificial scarcity that inflates the revenue of cartel members. >If Ubercab is civil disobedience, taxi drivers can drive without licenses and claim that they are participating in civil disobedience. Dare I ask, why not?

_delirium 16y ago
> Dare I ask, why not? If you'd like to try this out, you can approach one of the many unlicensed civil-disobedience taxis that hang out around NYC airports, instead of going with a licensed one. The quality and honesty of service is quite spotty though.
- uvdiv 16y ago
  To be pedantic, it's not civil disobedience if it's not openly defiant. It's one thing to evade a law, another to defy a law with publicity and challenge the government to prosecute you. Or as Wikipedia defines it: "Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience Evading a law is a selfish act; civil disobedience is going to jail out of principle, which is selfless.