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Originally Posted by peter12
Hah, nice one, Jayswin. I get and support why anyone would hate the taxi cartels. Nevermind that Uber's end goal is to end up being a far more powerful and dominant monopoly then any regional cab company could ever hope to be. The end game with Uber is always the same. Artificially lower transport rates and drive down the price of labour to take advantage of the excess supply of personal vehicles. Clever. Maybe not sustainable. Not to say we don't need to clean up the livery industry in some major ways. I just don't believe Uber is that solution.
Never mind that most people in this thread keep blending bad taxi cartel criticism with semi-racist hints of " I don't like how people from another country smell."
As well, given the near constant level of abuse that many drivers face from their inebriated, entitled customers it is a small wonder that a lot of drivers are a bit stand-offish.
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Actually I don't think MOST people in this thread are semi-racist people that prefer Uber because you might get a chance at a white driver, at all. I'm not even sure where you are even getting that from. I think what MOST people want is a reliable, cheap transportation service and in my opinion this has absolutely zero to do with race. It is a disservice to the deliciousness of this thread that some people would try to bend this discussion in some obtuse way to capture a discussion topic that is irrelevant.
Let's be completely honest and stay on topic here- let us not wade into distracting rhetoric about racism because that is not at all what this is about and you know it. I don't give a rats' ass, and I refuse to believe that MOST people give a rats' ass, about who is driving them around. It could be a monkey with a toupee for all I care as long as there is a ####ing car available when I'm drunk and it's -20C outside. The attempts to over complicate a simple situation almost seem like debating for the sake of debating.
As to jaywins point regarding Uber and "ethics"; please explain if the proposed "questionable" business plan of Uber is any worse than taxi commissions bribing city officials to artificially prevent a naturally occurring market with some regulation.
Again the taxi industry created this mess themselves, people are pissed off and for good reason.