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> Skirting regulation is not ok if you believe in rule of law. If the law is bad, then money can be spent to improve that law. I don’t want to snark on that id
by ralfd 7y ago
> Skirting regulation is not ok if you believe in rule of law. If the law is bad, then money can be spent to improve that law.
I don’t want to snark on that idealism, but it is noteworthy that this didn’t happen. Instead everyone suffered in silence about horrible taxi systems until Uber changed everything.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> I don’t want to snark on that idealism, but it is noteworthy that this didn’t happen. In some places in the US. And whatever improvements happened, were only side effects. The problem with Uber is that they applied the same disregard for law to every market they entered; it was never about improving things, it was about anticompetitive behavior sustained by investor money and moving fast enough to stay inside local regulators' OODA loops.