> Japan’s taxi companies just banded together and made an Uber like app to call taxies (including paying ahead, so you know exactly what it’s going to cost). Y

> Japan’s taxi companies just banded together and made an Uber like app to call taxies (including paying ahead, so you know exactly what it’s going to cost). Yes, it's called a worker's cooperative, a it's exactly how huge chunks of the economy should be organised. Unfortunately (as pointed out elsewhere in the thread) it is often impossible for workers to raise capital to build an enterprise in this model, even if it would mean a more efficient organisation.