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This is like Hotel owners hitting home owners for being host on Airbnb?

• _pmf_ 13y ago
  > This is like Hotel owners hitting home owners for being host on Airbnb? Hotel owners are typically a bit above minimum wage.
  • chii 13y ago
    are you saying that being on minimum wage is a justification for violence?
  • roma1n 13y ago
    French cab drivers are typically way above minimum wage...
    • brohee 13y ago
      Not in Paris. The independents still paying their medallion ("plaque de taxi", valued at about 240k €) are strangled by debt, and those that are employee are barely above minimum wage. It's pretty obvious to everyone that dropping the medallion system is the way forwards, but is there any example anywhere of dropping the medallion system in a fair manner for those that actually bought their medallion recently? Also, another thing I'm pretty concerned about is the qualification of non taxi drivers. The taxi license is actually very hard to get, I'm not so sure of what Uber requires of its drivers...
      • icebraining 13y ago
        is there any example anywhere of dropping the medallion system in a fair manner for those that actually bought their medallion recently? Why not just return their money?
        • brohee 13y ago
          Their money was paid to the previous holder of it, not to the state.
• rtpg 13y ago
  While it might be hard to defend the incumbent taxi industry, and Uber generally seems to be a "good thing" (not convinced that surge pricing is worthwhile however, I don't think that drivers are reactive enough that increasing price will increase supply when its needed, plus the backwards bending labor curve, but I digress). There might be some reasons for regulating taxis, but things like the medallion systems seem to have been a failure. Hotels are a different matter entirely: firstly, hotels are usually already pretty correctly priced, and services are usually good (in my experience at least). Secondly, the reasons for hotel regulation are still pretty relevant: - I don't want my neighbor to sublet constantly, and have people run around. The commons (hallways and stuff) will probably get degraded, and my life will be generally shittier (see various stories about subletters). - On a more maco-level, with things like rent control, subletting makes the supply even more constrained. Between getting rid of subletting and getting rid of rent control, I'd rather get rid of rent control, but in the meantime subletting is also kind of awful. airbnb's disruption is not uncontroversial