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I don't understand why breaking up the mafia wasn't a more pressing issue? What makes Uber drivers different that they won't be dragged from their cars and kick

by foepys 4y ago

I don't understand why breaking up the mafia wasn't a more pressing issue? What makes Uber drivers different that they won't be dragged from their cars and kicked to death?

SSLy 4y ago
the politicians from the parent commenter's city/state aren't in uber's bed
- hunterb123 4y ago
  They don't have to be? They would only need to intimidate/recruit the Uber drivers (which they did) and use their gov connections to cover up the crime. A local mafia problem is a local mafia problem, no matter the transportation system being hijacked. This whole thread kinda turned into Taxi whataboutism to deflect from Uber.
soneca 4y ago
They were definitely threatened and beat in Brazil several times at the beginning (I don’t recall anyone dying on the news, but I maybe it happened). The difference is that anyone could become a Uber driver, where not everyone could become a tax driver (due to governmental regulations and tight control by the mafia)