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> I was a longtime SF resident and remember very well how truly awful the taxi service was in SF before the rideshare apps. this is because of the legal bribes
by Black101 5y ago
> I was a longtime SF resident and remember very well how truly awful the taxi service was in SF before the rideshare apps.
this is because of the legal bribes paid to the government... aka lobbying. The free market would have solved that. What Uber did was illegal in many places, yet the Gov. let them do it (maybe they were scared of repercussions).
- thatguy0900 5y agoUber had a good strategy, subsidize prices super low to get enough customers and fans quickly enough before the government could act on it. Also blackballing government agents so they had more difficulty regulating it(how that never got them shut down in countries they did that I'll never know)
- voakbasda 5y agoShow me a government that cannot be bought…
- wolverine876 5y agoMany people in government cannot be bought.
- voakbasda 5y agoIt only takes one bad apple to spoil the lot. There’s always one.
- wolverine876 5y ago> It only takes one bad apple to spoil the lot. I don't see how that applies to government. A corrupt person in DHS spoils all the other people there? And spoils people in the the Dept of the Interior, and in Congress?
- wolverine876 5y agoAnd massive lobbying contributions and public communication campaigns, such as op-eds in local papers.