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>> What’s the most important change that happened in the world of atoms in the last 30 years? Uber may be near the top the list

Oh you mean a scheduling app that's lost billions of dollars via explicitly lawless business practices? Yes, it sure is no running water



The funny thing about ridesharing is that the "innovation" is literally just circumventing regulations designed to stop independent depression-era drivers from filling up the roads (e.g. medallion and licensing systems). If those regulations didn't exist, it wouldn't take a massive company to get them changed, and we might have ended up with distributed local markets for drivers rather than a few competing multinationals.


I'm so grateful that the masters of the universe have decided to grace us with a stupid article defending their stupid investment mistakes :)




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