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> Still a million times better than what it replaced. Uber didn't replace taxi. taxi was dying on it's own. Uber actually kept the bad designs of taxi going bu
by asdfjkhasjkdfh 4y ago
> Still a million times better than what it replaced.
Uber didn't replace taxi. taxi was dying on it's own. Uber actually kept the bad designs of taxi going but they monopolized the Medallions.
"what it replaced" was the ongoing outcry to minimally decent public transit. Some of the international offshoots of the Occupy movement actually had this as their central theme.
- legalcorrection 4y agoThis is fantastical. Paying someone to drive you somewhere is not going anywhere anytime soon.
- twblalock 4y agoPeople even use Uber in Europe despite having world-class public transit. That should tell you something about the utility it provides people: they could have used top-tier public transit but they chose to use Uber instead.