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Because the system is broken and people are heavily invested in the current system and it being broken... What? What's the logical conclusion to that sentence
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Because the system is broken and people are heavily invested in the current system and it being broken...
What? What's the logical conclusion to that sentence in your mind?
Should we keep on running the war on drugs because there are so many people who make a living off of it? Should we maintain copyright law the way it is today because companies have invested so heavily in it? Should we maintain software patent law the way it is because some folks have spent billions acquiring patent portfolios?
- EliAndrewC 13y agoThere are a lot of middle-ground options, such as "buying back" taxi medallions before opening the floodgates and letting anyone run a taxi. This is obviously a tricky approach for a lot of reasons, but certainly there's a middle ground between "taxi medallions forever" and "all taxi medallions are worthless overnight".
- InclinedPlane 13y agoHaving a competing service like uber is actually precisely that middle ground, since taxi medallions are not worthless overnight.