I agree. Of course the issue isn't binary, it's additive. Uber is just one of the many forces that are now destabilizing the relationship between people and the government (many of them are of government's own doing). But just because the house is already on fire, doesn't mean you should be free to pour gasoline into it.

The thing is, Uber isn't even really innovative. In Europe, we had a (arguably slow-going) process of reforming taxi laws going on for years. There were transportation upstarts that tackled taxi regulations through legal channels and in many places, my own country included, they managed to keep themselves on the market. Whatever tension there was between them and taxi companies got resolved in courts, regulations were updated and everyone was better off. But then Uber came and basically said, "fuck regulations, we have money to burn, what you're going to do?".