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Re:Disrupting Uber by winstonewert on Sunday July 31, 2016 @12:24PM (#12197564)
It seems to me that economic rents typically end up being friction that allows the owner of capital to capture returns, not something that helps workers get it.
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Re:Disrupting Uber by davidf18 on Sunday July 31, 2016 @12:37PM (#12197611)
It applies to both labor and capital. Overuse of licensing for jobs, including barbers and hair stylists.

Regarding labor, guilds or labor unions, or the American Medical Association that makes it more difficult for foreign doctors to work here than Israel makes it for foreign doctors to work there. And so on.

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