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They are often required for jobs that may directly put other people in danger. If you are getting into the backseat of a Uber you don't want the driver to be so
by vtlynch 11y ago
They are often required for jobs that may directly put other people in danger. If you are getting into the backseat of a Uber you don't want the driver to be someone who has had DUIs or a history of dangerous driving.
Hairdressers and other similar jobs are indeed regulated in this way - you dont want your ear getting cut off do you?
- smokeyj 11y agoBut the undocumented workers who handle your food, fix your car brakes, built your house and construct the fairground rides get a free pass. I don't understand the mental gymnastics required to support regulating ride sharing before all these other markets. For every bad story about a bad uber experience are 100's of lives spared from people not driving drunk. It's just mind boggling to me. Only blind ideology can make people this stupid. It's like they're afraid of a market solution being orders of magnitudes more efficient than the medallion system. And then we end up with lines like "you dont want your ear getting cut off do you?".
- vtlynch 11y agoOnly blind ideology could produce this mess of a comment.
- smokeyj 11y agoIt's called principled reasoning. Radical stuff man, give it a try. You hold no principle to be true that dictates voluntary and peaceful cooperation should be prevented with threats of violence in order to achieve safety. The only reason this conversation is being had instead of the conversation about background checks on your mechanic is because one sector is unionized. If you don't understand that you don't understand the politics of the situation. Great rebuttal though - shows what we're up against.