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How so?
by dylanjermiah 11y ago
How so?
- amelius 11y agoGoogle: Company that is using its power established in one market to gain control of another market. Uber: Entering a market with disregard of rules established for that market.
- dylanjermiah 11y agoInteresting, how would you define 'unfair competition' and 'fair competition'? In a general sense.
- minthd 11y agoamelius's answer is what the law sees as "unfair competition", altough often it's hard to sue i think(IANAL).
- frozenport 11y agoUber: fuck the law
- dylanjermiah 11y agoWhen the laws hurt consumers and protected the taxi cartel, I, and 2 million plus people per day welcome the destruction of such backwards laws.
- hackuser 11y agoIs Uber any better? They are their own cartel, much more powerful than taxi drivers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771551
- dylanjermiah 11y agoYes they are far superior. At least from personal experience they've been 3x cheaper and arrived 10x faster than the taxi alternative. Uber is not lobbying to remove competition and maintain a bad product and high prices. They're lobbying so the backwards laws can be removed. The opposite of what the taxi cartel is doing.
- amelius 11y agoJust wait until some billion-dollar funded company decides to ignore all normal business rules, in your particular market of interest. I'm curious what your response will be then.
- dylanjermiah 11y agoYou are assuming that I would lobby local government to restrict competition and maintain my high prices and my bad product. I would never do that, I welcome competition.