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Originally Posted by Itse
I mostly put that link here because I thought the article is worth reading and this thread made sense as a place to put it. Uber is a rather symbolic company in good ways and bad, so whether or not it's going to fail is I think an interesting question in itself.
I do have a personal dislike for this kind of business practice, but my personal decision to not use Uber is also very much connected to how I see the taxi system in Helsinki. (In other words: I don't think the taxi system in Helsinki needs disrupting that bad.)
I have no comments on how the taxis are like in Calgary and whether or not they need disrupting. I'm just throwing the info out there for those that are interested.
I mean, you can easily argue that driving with Uber equals is essentially helping stupid people with too much money waste their investments, and I can certainly get on board with that  |
I think you would have had to live here for a period of time between 2000-2014 to understand just how bad the taxi industry treated the citizens of this city. Just deplorable. Uber may have some negatives, but people here were so used to being screwed that any alternative would we welcomed with open arms, even if it had some warts. I lived in 4 different provinces, and travel frequently and I can honestly say I've never been any where in the modern world that had as crappy as a taxi industry as Calgary used to have.