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I mean, you get more than that, no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis". They looked at it and went "ooh I can use it from my phone with the push of
by shittyadmin 8y ago
I mean, you get more than that, no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis". They looked at it and went "ooh I can use it from my phone with the push of a button and it's cheaper". The whole point of the "sharing economy" is to compete on efficiency, ease of use and price.
Ridiculous, anti-competitive laws were in place in these systems, I applaud their death.
- notacoward 8y ago> no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis" I can disprove that all by myself, since that's exactly how I reacted when I first heard of Uber.
- russh 8y agoSame here, I truly don't understand how they got away with it.
- dbt00 8y agoI mean, Uber Black was allowing existing private car services to float their services on an on-demand market and soak up excess capacity. Sidecar/UberX/Lyft etc have always just been wildcat taxis, except at least a real wildcat taxicab probably has some experience. In my experience, most uberx/lyft drivers have been doing it less than a year, the good ones all leave as soon as they see how bad the pay is, and nobody knows what the fuck they're doing. It's amazing they haven't killed more people, tbh.
- rchaud 8y ago> no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis" That's because it was falsely framed as "ride sharing" to begin with, when it was obviously a taxi service. It should also go without saying that millions in VC cash can prettify anything and buy enough positive PR and lobbying to give the service an air of legitimacy.
- oliwarner 8y ago> The whole point of the "sharing economy" is to ... Rebrand existing services with unregulated, zero-hours contractors, using their own unregulated assets, with a layer of brokering software. It's marketing wank, for both consumers and workers.