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Re:Read This Before You Build Uber for X by delecti on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:14PM (#15151038)
Uber's killer selling point is not skirting labor laws, it's facilitating connecting labor with demand via an app. Skirting labor laws certainly made them more attractive because it let them charge less, but I use Uber (well Lyft, but same thing) because it's convenient to pay and to get picked up and dropped off.
Re:Read This Before You Build Uber for X by rayvd on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:53PM (#15151885)
In addition, it's questionable that those labor laws do more to protect laborers or exist solely to preserve a government-backed monopoly...

If someone doesn't want to drive for Uber, they can be a taxi driver instead...

Re:Read This Before You Build Uber for X by fragmede on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:57PM (#15151912)