I don't know if you can say that Uber has made the world a worse place. That requires at least a total ordering on Uber's biggest actions and probably quantification of the consequences.
If the advent of Uber has resulted in a billion drink deaths not happening but one person making $2 less per hour, it's clear. The other way around is clear too. But as it is right now, you can't assert that as is. You have to bring something more convincing to the table.
Re:How to Steal a River
by specialist on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:04AM
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Yup. Functioning market economy requires a fair and impartial judicial system. Among other things.
Freedom Markets™ is a religion, not economics.
True, that statement does suffer from overreach. I was stuck in thinking of big government and entrenched players using economic tools to stifle positive disruptors. Of course there is a role for good as well.
It has another potential role to play though: safeguarding the playing field. For each Tesla trying to make the world a better place, there's an Uber, fucking society over for profit. The role of bureaucracy should be to allow the former and prevent the latter.