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Yes, yes it does. If Uber could help usher in the end of some of the other government monopolies, we'd be looking at some huge steps forward.

• rayiner 12y ago
  I think it's time to reconsider a lot of state licensing regimes. But the fact that they're licensing regimes isn't what makes them bad. Licensing regimes are a perfectly reasonable way for the state to control behavior that involves negative externalities. I think almost everyone agrees that governments shouldn't allow factories to be created in residential areas, or allow drivers to drive without liability insurance.
  • tptacek 12y ago
    Careful: ancaps, hardly an Internet endangered species, definitely don't agree with this.
    • zachlipton 12y ago
      And we don't necessarily have to take every single view seriously. The vast majority of people don't want a massive polluting factory built next to their single-family home. The fact that a few people disagree doesn't mean that every project get bogged down in a discussion of the legitimacy of zoning as a concept.
      • alexeisadeski3 12y ago
        Ancaps simply have more efficient ways of keeping the polluting factories away from homes than existing zoning processes can achieve.
  • alexeisadeski3 12y ago
    >I think almost everyone agrees that governments shouldn't allow factories to be created in residential areas, or allow drivers to drive without liability insurance. Zoning is not needed for the former.
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