Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by vinceguidry on Friday May 22, 2015 @02:43PM
(#9590181)
> predicated on the violation of transportation and disability laws.
You forgot labor laws.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I've attempted to lay out a rationale from as close to first principles as I can reasonably approach for the right relationship startups should have with the law and society and you've ignored it out of disgust.
No alternatives given for fixing the problems that legislation engenders for commerce, just irrational hatred.
Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by toomuchtodo on Friday May 22, 2015 @03:18PM
(#9590402)
> No alternatives given for fixing the problems that legislation engenders for commerce, just irrational hatred.
Not hatred, disgust. There's a significant difference.
What good is a service attempting to "disrupt" regulation if it lowers the quality of life for the most in need? THAT is not progress.
Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by vinceguidry on Friday May 22, 2015 @04:49PM
(#9590846)
> There's a significant difference.
Not in that they're both irrational.
Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by toomuchtodo on Friday May 22, 2015 @05:41PM
(#9591012)
Wanting to be on the moral side of technological progress is by no means irrational.
Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by vinceguidry on Friday May 22, 2015 @05:51PM
(#9591037)
The law is not necessarily moral.
I have never been more disgusted by an answer on Hacker News. My apologies for that.
Uber's "wealth" is merely an artifact of VC money rushing into a space with an unjustifiable valuation predicated on the violation of transportation and disability laws.
Uber will be the Web Van of the mobility space. Cool idea, replaced by self-driving vehicles owned and operated by organizations willing to follow laws of the jurisdictions they operate in.