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I'm not sure I understand this comment. We do have the right to tell others how to run their businesses. Get food poisoning at a restaurant (btw, also a low m

by pempem 5y ago

I'm not sure I understand this comment. We do have the right to tell others how to run their businesses. Get food poisoning at a restaurant (btw, also a low margin business) there's protocol. Get in a taxi and it goes somewhere it shouldn't? protocol. Hotel spying on you? or maybe not having fire safety rules? or not having running water? We regulate where businesses go, how they operate, how big they can get and plenty more. Nearly every single limitation was paid for in misery, lost funds, or in blood.

drstewart 5y ago
Exactly, this is why we need Comcast to have a monopoly in municipal broadband or a limited number of taxi medallions in cities. To prevent bloodshed.
- pempem 5y ago
  Sure, I heard the sarcasm and agree. We have rules, they aren't well implemented. My response was to a comment that indicated there should be none. Additionally, here are the cases where taxis, unregulated, led to bloodshed. The policy is old but the fact that it was in response to violence is a repeating pattern: 1. Medallions introduced: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/11/nyregion/medallion-limits-stem-from-the-30-s.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/11/nyregion/medallion-limits...