All these takes here. Two preambles: Y'all need to read Invisible Hands, really need to. That book is about how various losely connected sometimes even competi

All these takes here. Two preambles: Y'all need to read Invisible Hands, really need to. That book is about how various losely connected sometimes even competing groups of businessmen worked to roll the New Deal back. It's not a conspiracy theory, there was no shadow cabal behind the scenes -- but the goal was common. https://wwnorton.com/books/Invisible-Hands/ https://wwnorton.com/books/Invisible-Hands/ Second, Amazon was started to become a monopoly in retail and only begun with books because it was a relatively easy thing to work with. Similarly, while Uber started with fancy cars soon enough it became a means to destroy the protections organized labor managed to get in the last hundred or so years. Or at least what remained of them. In this the company was exceptionally successful by creating what is called the "gig economy". As people hate taxis, using that market for this purpose was the easy way. If you think past the introduction of UberX in 2012 Uber had anything to do with transportation then, pardon the pun, you have been taken for a ride.