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Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by fernandotakai on Friday January 05, 2018 @08:21AM (#16078361)
> The picture of taxi owners as powerful doesn't at all match what I know. It's a shibboleth promoted by Uber.

the city where i live (a 12 million people city) taxi cartels are so powerful, the leader of one of those has dinner with the governor. he has meetings with senators. there is recording of him calling for taxi drivers within his "association" to violently attack uber drivers and nothing was done.

also, taxi medallions are so damn expensive (with some coming to the price of a house) that the owners become powerful.

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Re:Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% ... by forapurpose on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:54PM (#16082826)
> the city where i live (a 12 million people city) taxi cartels are so powerful, the leader of one of those has dinner with the governor. he has meetings with senators

Do you think Uber's leaders might do the same?

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