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And their success is, by and large, a testament to how poorly the previous power (the taxi guilds) served the people.

• emodendroket 11y ago
  It's easy to cut prices if you just exempt yourself from the labor laws everyone else has to follow.
  • fwn 11y ago
    Not only themselves but drivers and customers too. Uber, their drivers and their customers benefit from not being covered by those labor laws you're talking about. It's bad for politics and the traditional taxi industry because they get less from the cake.
  • icebraining 11y ago
    Taxi drivers were already exempt from most of those labour laws - they were already considered contractors and didn't have overtime nor benefits.
    • hoopd 11y ago
      But they were actually contractors.