Taxis pick up people off the side of the road. Uber and Lyft do not pick up people off the side of the road. Therefore, you are a liar and should be ignored. Good idea to post as AC, lest anyone connect you to your bosses, taxi shill.
But Uber already does background checks. If another company came along that didn't do that, they would probably do worse, save for all the crazies out there that put out continuous disinformation about Uber and Co.
If the Uber driver doesn't have insurance, they can't drive for Uber. If this happened, then the driver would be deactivated until they could get another policy. Sucks for the driver, but I REALLY don't see what the problem is.
I know right? We all know that FedEX, UPS, and USPS workers are all physically incapable of theft thanks to regulations. Now if only someone would set some regulations on our everyday lives so no-one else could steal or murder. That would make things so much nicer, don't you think?
You know, you should probably lay off the libel there, friend.
Uber already carries insurance on its passenger service. What on Earth makes you think they wouldn't insure parcels? And why do you think that people who are being electronically tracked would destroy their parcels, thus getting themselves fired/deactivated, and having charges brought against them?
Do you anti-Uber people just not think? Because it seems like you just throw out any kind of garbage that sounds like its an argument against it and see what sticks, even if they are outright and blatant lies.
What was hyperbolic? I PERSONALLY know doctors who are retiring over this, and it is the EXACT SAME mechanism in action.
Note that liberals value labels over actions. I don't care if the guy says he's a Tory, a Nazi, or a high priest of Ayn Rand, his actions are those of a liberal.
And no, just because I am against the current administration doesn't make me a tea party member OR a conservative. Conservatives all paint me as a liberal, liberals paint me as a conservative. This is the life of a libertarian (or in my case, an ancap).
I don't understand why people keep repeating the meme that there isn't any insurance here. There is! Uber, and presumably Lyft and Co, provide $1million of coverage from the second a rider gets in the car.
Uber's PR department sucks ass apparently. EVERYONE should know this, but no-one seems to.
If you drive for those companies, then you passed a background check, you carry a million dollars in insurance, provided by the company, whenever you have a passenger in your car, and you have a GPS record of you being exactly where the people were picked up and the bodies dumped.
Why are you so stupid? Must have gone to a public school and really, really paid attention.
I bet if the government banned the sale of tomatoes, you would try to justify it. "They're a deadly nightshade!" you would say. "It should be illegal to sell them!"
What do you think is happening to the Uber driver that he isn't showing up? They can't just pick people up off the street like a cab (which is probably the main difference between them and a taxi company). So what do you think they are doing in that little fantasy world inside your head? Stopping for a burger?
Why do you feel the need to make shit up? You shilling or something? Uber has a million dollar policy in effect the second you get into the vehicle, and drivers are all subjected to criminal background checks. And unlike taxi companies, the drivers aren't recruited from among the patrons of a Lahore brothel.
Taxi cabs shouldn't have been "regulated" in the first place. It was all a scam to make the most powerful taxi companies at the time of imposition of those "regulations" tons and tons of money, both be limiting competition, and by giving them large numbers of medallions at cheap prices, which they could then resell for millions years later (ie artificial scarcity).
Capitalism fails because people redefine the word to mean what we used to call Corporatism or Fascism.
Capitalism in the US ended in 1913 with the founding of the Federal Reserve. Central banks are a central pillar of non-capitalist economic systems. They create a monopoly on the very core of free exchange, minting and issuance of money. Prior to that, anyone could issue currency, and many did, mostly backed by gold. This worked well enough to see the US rise from agrarian backwater to industrial superpower over the course of a single generation.
The standard oil monopoly decreased the price of kerosene by 90% while improving the quality of the product.
Lets put it this way: "monopolies" created by the free market are still regulated by the free market because there are still competitors (SO had a 90% market share at its apex, the remaining competitors got to be efficient and cost effective enough to compete with them). If they raise their prices or let slip their quality, then competition will come out of the woodwork. This has happened in the modern era with Microsoft, which beat anti-trust prosecution, but has still lost market share because, well, their products stunk.
This is as opposed to government granted monopolies, which have no incentive to provide anything more than the minimum mandated service at the maximum allowable price and fuck you if you call in on our break you prick.
Call up your insurance agency and tell them that you are operating a taxi or limo service now. Tell us what happens, if you can manage to sit down at your computer anytime in the next month.
Pompous assholes protecting monied interests say that something is illegal, and you roll over and let those monied interests have their way with you.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Everyone I have talked to on the subject has enjoyed Uber much more than your precious taxis. They are prompt, courteous, clean, and the vehicles are in good repair. If something is wrong with the driving, you give a bad rating, and the driver will soon be deactivated. That is market regulation. Try getting a union taxi driver fired for anything short of assault.
You are confusing businesses with corporations. Not all businesses have shareholders and act in a sociopathic manner.
Everyone seems to hate corporations, but bring up the idea of banning them in favor of a natural system (ie no government imposed "corporate veil" limiting the liability of the owners/shareholders) where the owners are actually responsible for the actions of their employees, and everyone goes crazy.
You do realize that there is no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber, right? It would be like a store owner with video surveillance in his own store raping someone as they come in. Might as well walk into a police station and rape the guy at the front desk. There is literally no way you can't get caught. Your every move is tracked by GPS.
Christ, you fucking liberals and your "basic needs". You'll have us all living in caves before you're through.
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Taxis pick up people off the side of the road. Uber and Lyft do not pick up people off the side of the road. Therefore, you are a liar and should be ignored. Good idea to post as AC, lest anyone connect you to your bosses, taxi shill.
But Uber already does background checks. If another company came along that didn't do that, they would probably do worse, save for all the crazies out there that put out continuous disinformation about Uber and Co.
If the Uber driver doesn't have insurance, they can't drive for Uber. If this happened, then the driver would be deactivated until they could get another policy. Sucks for the driver, but I REALLY don't see what the problem is.
I know right? We all know that FedEX, UPS, and USPS workers are all physically incapable of theft thanks to regulations. Now if only someone would set some regulations on our everyday lives so no-one else could steal or murder. That would make things so much nicer, don't you think?
You know, you should probably lay off the libel there, friend.
Uber already carries insurance on its passenger service. What on Earth makes you think they wouldn't insure parcels? And why do you think that people who are being electronically tracked would destroy their parcels, thus getting themselves fired/deactivated, and having charges brought against them?
Do you anti-Uber people just not think? Because it seems like you just throw out any kind of garbage that sounds like its an argument against it and see what sticks, even if they are outright and blatant lies.
What was hyperbolic? I PERSONALLY know doctors who are retiring over this, and it is the EXACT SAME mechanism in action.
Note that liberals value labels over actions. I don't care if the guy says he's a Tory, a Nazi, or a high priest of Ayn Rand, his actions are those of a liberal.
And no, just because I am against the current administration doesn't make me a tea party member OR a conservative. Conservatives all paint me as a liberal, liberals paint me as a conservative. This is the life of a libertarian (or in my case, an ancap).
Correct. They should therefore remove the anti-consumer regulations from ALL people-moving services.
When there is a bad regulation, get rid of it! Don't force people to obey it.
I don't understand why people keep repeating the meme that there isn't any insurance here. There is! Uber, and presumably Lyft and Co, provide $1million of coverage from the second a rider gets in the car.
Uber's PR department sucks ass apparently. EVERYONE should know this, but no-one seems to.
If you drive for those companies, then you passed a background check, you carry a million dollars in insurance, provided by the company, whenever you have a passenger in your car, and you have a GPS record of you being exactly where the people were picked up and the bodies dumped.
Why are you so stupid? Must have gone to a public school and really, really paid attention.
Is a limo service also a taxi service?
Taxis can pick people up off the street. Uber and limos can't.
The Mafia does the same thing. Therefore, buy the transitive effect, the Mafia is the law, or more succinctly, the law is a Mafia.
Did you know there was peacetime income tax in the US prior to 1913?
I bet if the government banned the sale of tomatoes, you would try to justify it. "They're a deadly nightshade!" you would say. "It should be illegal to sell them!"
Empiricism doesn't count either, I guess?
What do you think is happening to the Uber driver that he isn't showing up? They can't just pick people up off the street like a cab (which is probably the main difference between them and a taxi company). So what do you think they are doing in that little fantasy world inside your head? Stopping for a burger?
Why do you feel the need to make shit up? You shilling or something? Uber has a million dollar policy in effect the second you get into the vehicle, and drivers are all subjected to criminal background checks. And unlike taxi companies, the drivers aren't recruited from among the patrons of a Lahore brothel.
Taxi cabs shouldn't have been "regulated" in the first place. It was all a scam to make the most powerful taxi companies at the time of imposition of those "regulations" tons and tons of money, both be limiting competition, and by giving them large numbers of medallions at cheap prices, which they could then resell for millions years later (ie artificial scarcity).
Capitalism fails because people redefine the word to mean what we used to call Corporatism or Fascism.
Capitalism in the US ended in 1913 with the founding of the Federal Reserve. Central banks are a central pillar of non-capitalist economic systems. They create a monopoly on the very core of free exchange, minting and issuance of money. Prior to that, anyone could issue currency, and many did, mostly backed by gold. This worked well enough to see the US rise from agrarian backwater to industrial superpower over the course of a single generation.
The standard oil monopoly decreased the price of kerosene by 90% while improving the quality of the product.
Lets put it this way: "monopolies" created by the free market are still regulated by the free market because there are still competitors (SO had a 90% market share at its apex, the remaining competitors got to be efficient and cost effective enough to compete with them). If they raise their prices or let slip their quality, then competition will come out of the woodwork. This has happened in the modern era with Microsoft, which beat anti-trust prosecution, but has still lost market share because, well, their products stunk.
This is as opposed to government granted monopolies, which have no incentive to provide anything more than the minimum mandated service at the maximum allowable price and fuck you if you call in on our break you prick.
Call up your insurance agency and tell them that you are operating a taxi or limo service now. Tell us what happens, if you can manage to sit down at your computer anytime in the next month.
Uber provides commercial insurance at that rate the second the passenger enters the vehicle.
Pompous assholes protecting monied interests say that something is illegal, and you roll over and let those monied interests have their way with you.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Everyone I have talked to on the subject has enjoyed Uber much more than your precious taxis. They are prompt, courteous, clean, and the vehicles are in good repair. If something is wrong with the driving, you give a bad rating, and the driver will soon be deactivated. That is market regulation. Try getting a union taxi driver fired for anything short of assault.
It's so police can hassle the drivers.
Taxi drivers are physically incapable of killing someone, I guess.
Really, someone ought to just make murder illegal. Seems like that would be simpler.
Making money really should be illegal, shouldn't it?
You are confusing businesses with corporations. Not all businesses have shareholders and act in a sociopathic manner.
Everyone seems to hate corporations, but bring up the idea of banning them in favor of a natural system (ie no government imposed "corporate veil" limiting the liability of the owners/shareholders) where the owners are actually responsible for the actions of their employees, and everyone goes crazy.
You do realize that there is no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber, right? It would be like a store owner with video surveillance in his own store raping someone as they come in. Might as well walk into a police station and rape the guy at the front desk. There is literally no way you can't get caught. Your every move is tracked by GPS.
Christ, you fucking liberals and your "basic needs". You'll have us all living in caves before you're through.