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Passengers have the inalienable right to choose the level of safety they feel comfortable for a price, and no goverment should confiscate that right. That's th
by Thiz 12y ago
Passengers have the inalienable right to choose the level of safety they feel comfortable for a price, and no goverment should confiscate that right.
That's the essence of free markets.
- Vik1ng 12y agoUntil the driver crashes into another car and is no covered by insurance... Sorry, but your "inalienable" right end once you affect others. Also someone will have to pick up your hospital bill I you weren't insured.
- capisce 12y agoFree markets suffer from negative externalities / tragedy of the commons, cartels, monopolies, race to the bottom, etc...
- Xylakant 12y agoYou might have missed the announcement, but Germanys system is not a free market, by choice of it's population [1]. You can believe that it should be and try and lobby for a change, but it's an inalienable right in a democracy to vote on what we all consider the rights and obligations we all want to have in a society and sadly, for Uber and its investors, that view currently does not match up with their vision. [1] We even have that in the constitution, GG, Art. 14, Satz (2) "Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen."