Re:Who is the Villain in this Disruption Story?
by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:22PM
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"...Unlike the story of ride sharing apps and the taxi industry, this story doesn't seem to have an easy villain..."
I'm getting lost in the premise here. Does every story of disruption have to have a hero and a villain? This seems to be a rule of how these things work in the author's eyes? Why the heck is that?
I own a car. I park the car. If I allow other people to use the car, the location the car is parked has nothing to do with anything. If it did, would we start allowing different fees depending on where my car was when I loaned it to somebody? That's crazy.
There's not a villain. There's a broken revenue model for airports that doesn't work anymore. That's good -- things keep changing and we wouldn't expect everything to remain stable forever. Airports need to change like everything else. Creative change that gives us all more of what we want more efficiently is a good thing. We need lots more of it. It doesn't have to fit into a good-guy/bad-guy narrative.
Like I said, I have no idea what the point the author is trying to make here.
I'm getting lost in the premise here. Does every story of disruption have to have a hero and a villain? This seems to be a rule of how these things work in the author's eyes? Why the heck is that?
I own a car. I park the car. If I allow other people to use the car, the location the car is parked has nothing to do with anything. If it did, would we start allowing different fees depending on where my car was when I loaned it to somebody? That's crazy.
There's not a villain. There's a broken revenue model for airports that doesn't work anymore. That's good -- things keep changing and we wouldn't expect everything to remain stable forever. Airports need to change like everything else. Creative change that gives us all more of what we want more efficiently is a good thing. We need lots more of it. It doesn't have to fit into a good-guy/bad-guy narrative.
Like I said, I have no idea what the point the author is trying to make here.