Re:Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court
by alkonaut on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:47AM
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> And everyone who remembers ordering a taxi in advance and waiting for 20-30 minutes for a bad, rude driver, for 2-3 the money that taxis cost now, can appreciate the innovation.
I think what people are confusing here are the effects of a removed monopoly and technical innovation.
The solution isn't removing employment safety, the solution is just removing the monopoly in cities where there are taxi monopolies. All Uber did was simply circumvent the monopoly regulations.
Try a non-uber taxi in a city without taxi monopoly and it's exactly like uber.
Re:Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court
by golergka on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:01AM
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> Try a non-uber taxi in a city without taxi monopoly and it's exactly like uber.
I feel like I'm repeating myself - yes, it is, in 2017.
In 2007 it was nothing like it. It became like it after people started cloning Uber.
Re:Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court
by alkonaut on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:07AM
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Did cities with monopolies start dropping the monopolies in the last decade? I lived in a city that dropped the monopoly before Uber so I haven't noticed the change in the last decade.
Re:Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court
by ant6n on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:39AM
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> And everyone who remembers ordering a taxi in advance and waiting for 20-30 minutes for a bad, rude driver, for 2-3 the money that taxis cost now, can appreciate the innovation.
A cab company with a rating system?
In 2017, yes. But despite the fact that in some countries, Uber clones appeared before Uber did, Uber was, as far as I remember, the first to implement such a model.
And everyone who remembers ordering a taxi in advance and waiting for 20-30 minutes for a bad, rude driver, for 2-3 the money that taxis cost now, can appreciate the innovation.