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> and credit unions with a combined $2.5 billion in medallion loans are suing the city for failing to stop Uber from stealing customers. As an occasional custo
by fennecfoxen 11y ago
> and credit unions with a combined $2.5 billion in medallion loans are suing the city for failing to stop Uber from stealing customers.
As an occasional customer of NYC transportation services, I'd just like to throw this out there: I AM NOT YOUR PROPERTY! YOU DO NOT OWN ME! I CANNOT BE "STOLEN"!
- fennecfoxen 11y agoPostscript: If you're willing to listen to the likes of the New York Times, perhaps you'd believe the fall in medallion prices is a good thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/nyregion/1-million-medallions-stifling-the-dreams-of-cabdrivers.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/nyregion/1-million-medalli...
- bko 11y agoI love how this is just a throw-away line in the article and not rightfully mocked for the absurdity that it is and corporatism at its worse.
- rasz_pl 11y agoOf course you are, You are nothing but a walking talking money bag (with a funny accent). Notice how they keep talking about reduced revenue for the 'taxi industry', but not for the drivers. Clever bankers and businessmen constructed this system of extracting revenue (>2B from taxis holy shit) over the years and wont give it up easily. Uber is only marginally better for the drivers in the short run, long term its simply going to replace banks/current taxi cartels as the major money redirection entity. Cab drivers - the actual workers? almost below the middle class level despite apparently being in the center of 2.5Billion industry.