Taxi companies can and do sidestep or ignore those regulations.
And by doing so, break the law, leading themselves open to fines and other punishments.
Despite the supposed criminal background checks, some cab drivers do rape, assault, and rob their customers
Despite background checks, some teachers and scout masters do rape children. Does that mean we should just not bother and let anyone off the street be in charge of children?
If the state doesn't have a monopoly on violence the most violent in the state will come to control it, at which point there will be a new state with a monopoly on violence.
All the fun-loving libertarians out there should look at Iraq and Syria. Their governments have lost their monopoly on violence, and allowed ISIL/daesh to prosper.
I haven't used Uber and the last time I rode in a taxi was years ago so I have no dog in this fight.
This probably applies to most people but to judge by the hyped up Uber shills here, everyone pretty much uses taxis a couple of times a day, and so the savings are impressive.
If you can't see the difference between breaking a bad law for moral reasons and breaking it in order to make money, you're a pretty unimpressive human being.
What we're witnessing here is not State Vs Anarchy Round One. What we're witnessing is quite simply State Regulation vs Corporate Regulation.
Most Uber supporters here seem to believe it's more like the former. Of course, instead of "anarchy" they use phrases like "the unregulated free market".
In fact, what they really want is "Corporate Regulation" as you call it, which is basically one law for those with control of the wealth (corporations) and another for everyone else.
Capital efficiency is about spending resources in the most effective manner possible generating the maximum benefit. We have a finite amount of resources (manpower, money, raw materials) so you want maximize the benefit generated with them. Any time you unnecessarily support a business that is not using capital efficiently you are by definition wasting money, brains and materials. Doing so to protect a potentially obsolete business model is particularly stupid.
The assertion that "the free market" or "the Invisible Hand" magically produces this maximum benefit just as long as you remove all government interference is simply magical thinking on behalf of libertarians and ultra right wing economists.
the biggest opportunity for uber is to make cars be used a greater portion of the day
But if you have all these cars currently just sitting in offfice parking lots during the day, then what happens during the morning and evening rush hour? You will presumably have to go either very early or very late to avoid the higher surge fees from uber. Also, Uber will just end up with all the cars being relatively under-used during the day anyway.
If people can use taxis/public transport to avoid buying a car, good for them, but I just don't see how Uber changes things that much.
If your funding is so bad that you can't afford anything newer than a P3 and a 17" CRT, I have to wonder just how good the research is that you do. Or maybe that you just don't understand how technology has changed.
What difference would it make if you had the latest hi spec gaming machine and a couple of 36" flat screen monitors to play a simple yes/no game?
Happily married for over thirty years. Two of my three daughters graduated from college with STEM degrees (third daughter has a BA degree). All are working full time. Sorry your prejudices don't fit me, but this is a poorly written article about a psychology student's non-scientific experiment.
Being married and having children does not prevent you from being a right wing misogynist, which the use of "SJW" in your original post indicates is the case.
If you're letting your five year old watch people being blown away violently on prime-time television shows your parenting skills are somewhat questionable.
They are not sexual objects? May be not to you; to a large number of men, they most certainly are. Have you ever even in a social occasion in which, all of sudden, a really busty, deep cleavage woman steps in? You don't have to be very observant to notice how most guys in the meeting immediately become blabbering idiots while probably developing an almost instant hard-on (that is, those who still can.)
You need to stop hanging round thirteen year old boys.
If the latter, government spending is essential because the market is way too shortsighted and prefers to take risks on balance sheets.
Because politicians are known for their long term thinking? All of the problems you state have to do with governments and central banking and have zero to do with free markets.
In a sense you are fright that this has zero to do with free markets, for the simple reason that they do not exist, have never existed and will only ever exist in the imaginations of libertarians.
Meanwhile in the real world, capitalism depends absolutely on banks and those banks appear to require evil government central banks to prop them up in extremis.
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Taxi companies can and do sidestep or ignore those regulations.
And by doing so, break the law, leading themselves open to fines and other punishments.
Despite the supposed criminal background checks, some cab drivers do rape, assault, and rob their customers
Despite background checks, some teachers and scout masters do rape children. Does that mean we should just not bother and let anyone off the street be in charge of children?
If the state doesn't have a monopoly on violence the most violent in the state will come to control it, at which point there will be a new state with a monopoly on violence.
All the fun-loving libertarians out there should look at Iraq and Syria. Their governments have lost their monopoly on violence, and allowed ISIL/daesh to prosper.
I haven't used Uber and the last time I rode in a taxi was years ago so I have no dog in this fight.
This probably applies to most people but to judge by the hyped up Uber shills here, everyone pretty much uses taxis a couple of times a day, and so the savings are impressive.
If you can't see the difference between breaking a bad law for moral reasons and breaking it in order to make money, you're a pretty unimpressive human being.
I have a six figure job and I've given it serious thought for the weekends.
You're either a liar or the most idiotic Uber shill I've come across so far on slashdot. Or, of course, both.
What we're witnessing here is not State Vs Anarchy Round One. What we're witnessing is quite simply State Regulation vs Corporate Regulation.
Most Uber supporters here seem to believe it's more like the former. Of course, instead of "anarchy" they use phrases like "the unregulated free market".
In fact, what they really want is "Corporate Regulation" as you call it, which is basically one law for those with control of the wealth (corporations) and another for everyone else.
Capital efficiency is about spending resources in the most effective manner possible generating the maximum benefit. We have a finite amount of resources (manpower, money, raw materials) so you want maximize the benefit generated with them. Any time you unnecessarily support a business that is not using capital efficiently you are by definition wasting money, brains and materials. Doing so to protect a potentially obsolete business model is particularly stupid.
The assertion that "the free market" or "the Invisible Hand" magically produces this maximum benefit just as long as you remove all government interference is simply magical thinking on behalf of libertarians and ultra right wing economists.
A rising tide floats all boats
Reagonomics 101.
what I'm trying to say, uber is better. open your mind to the future, cuz it's not going anywhere.
You're either a paid Uber shill, or, more worryingly, some sort of Uber fanboy.
I'm really looking forward to a future when Uber has a monopoly of the personal transportation system.
the biggest opportunity for uber is to make cars be used a greater portion of the day
But if you have all these cars currently just sitting in offfice parking lots during the day, then what happens during the morning and evening rush hour? You will presumably have to go either very early or very late to avoid the higher surge fees from uber. Also, Uber will just end up with all the cars being relatively under-used during the day anyway.
If people can use taxis/public transport to avoid buying a car, good for them, but I just don't see how Uber changes things that much.
If your funding is so bad that you can't afford anything newer than a P3 and a 17" CRT, I have to wonder just how good the research is that you do. Or maybe that you just don't understand how technology has changed.
What difference would it make if you had the latest hi spec gaming machine and a couple of 36" flat screen monitors to play a simple yes/no game?
Happily married for over thirty years. Two of my three daughters graduated from college with STEM degrees (third daughter has a BA degree). All are working full time. Sorry your prejudices don't fit me, but this is a poorly written article about a psychology student's non-scientific experiment.
Being married and having children does not prevent you from being a right wing misogynist, which the use of "SJW" in your original post indicates is the case.
The US is the only place in the world where pickup trucks are driven by anyone other than actual builders and farmers.
Personally, I don't want to see someone's hairy anus when they bend over to pick up a penny.
Just carry around a few waxing strips for these sort of personal hygience emergencies.
Bristol Palin practices abstinence quite publicly, and ended up unwed and pregnant again.
I'm fairly sure you'd need to practise abstinence privately too.
If you're letting your five year old watch people being blown away violently on prime-time television shows your parenting skills are somewhat questionable.
I'm not talking about paedo stuff here, I'm talking about teens who have become sexually active on their own volition.
Says the paedophile.
There is a reason all civilized countries have an age of consent, and it's nothing to do with irrational fears of nudity.
To not mention all the pony/furry porn.
I told you to not mention all the pony/furry porn!
Copyright Spike Milligan.
Except, any healthy male human gets turned on by seeing a shapely female breast. While 99.9% wouldn't be turned on by seeing a pencil.
As usual everyone vilifies the pencilphiles.
They are not sexual objects? May be not to you; to a large number of men, they most certainly are. Have you ever even in a social occasion in which, all of sudden, a really busty, deep cleavage woman steps in? You don't have to be very observant to notice how most guys in the meeting immediately become blabbering idiots while probably developing an almost instant hard-on (that is, those who still can.)
You need to stop hanging round thirteen year old boys.
That doesn't mean the ol' Musketeer won't experience some setbacks on his path to Mars.
I just threw up on my keyboard.
Thanks Elon!
yes... lets just rob people of their money because *YOU* know what it could be better spent on.....
I prefer to use the word tax, but yes, that money should be put to better use than constructing ever bigger yachts.
If the latter, government spending is essential because the market is way too shortsighted and prefers to take risks on balance sheets.
Because politicians are known for their long term thinking? All of the problems you state have to do with governments and central banking and have zero to do with free markets.
In a sense you are fright that this has zero to do with free markets, for the simple reason that they do not exist, have never existed and will only ever exist in the imaginations of libertarians.
Meanwhile in the real world, capitalism depends absolutely on banks and those banks appear to require evil government central banks to prop them up in extremis.
This launch was undoubtedly, like all launches: insured
Their insurance premiums must be
*Puts on sunglasses*
astronomical.
YYYEEEAAAHHH!!!
Just a couple of days ago i watched Muslims drowning some people closed in a cage and submerged in a pool
Why? Seriously, why would you watch that?
I agree. It's like people watching every single ISIL beheading video. What's the point?
I don't need to watch a video to know that murdering people is wrong.