"Progressive Regulation"
The only way that creates new jobs is if the alternative was walking or staying home, or driving yourself. Otherwise it is just taking revenue and jobs from current cab drivers.
As long as their fantasy doesn’t cost me anything, I couldn’t care less. (especially in europe)
"Progressive Regulation"
As I’ve said before, this business model isn’t going to last very long. The regulatory challenges Uber faces is nothing compared to the damage that will be done for their whole business model once the market matures and all of the players involved in the business transactions (drivers, passengers and Uber) see the true costs of the business. Up until now they’ve been able to make a go of it because it’s such a new concept that a lot of these costs haven’t caught up to them.
So Uber is a service company that you use instead of your personal vehicle as a type of ride share ?
I can see this working in a major city where the cost of owning a car is far more than a car payment and fuel...
They sure are pissing people off. With all the bad press they get, they can’t be all bad.
We need to stop using the phrase ‘creating jobs.’ A solid economy is build on creative destruction of jobs. Uber creates jobs getting cars off the road ... so auto jobs are lost. But those people are free to create other wealth, and transportation has been rendered more efficient.
Entrepreneurs don’t create jobs. They destroy jobs and create value, which becomes the capital for new companies. That is how things should work. This is how the human condition has always been improved in the physical world.
Please don’t talk about creating jobs. I especially hate it when Republicans and entrepreneuars talk it about it. It’s socialist. If your company doesn’t destroy more jobs than it creates, then it wasn’t creating any value in the first place.
A healthy economy is based entirely on the cycle of the destruction of jobs, which creates space for new growth. THAT in turn creates wealth and value for everyone. That’s true welfare - the rich and poor benefit alike. Not that the rich or the poor deserve to benefit, nor deserve to suffer. This just happens to be how God set up the game.
Please go out and destroy jobs!!!!!! Chauncy Gardner was not, in fact, a fool.
wants “progressive regulation”
Like Houston’s fascist mayor and her lapdog liberal city council implemented?
In Houston, ride sharing drivers must complete a physical, three background checks (driving records, warrant check, FBI fingerprint check), two vehicle inspections, and obtain a placard, a fire extinguisher and a driving permit, in order to drive people for money in their own personal vehicle. Ballpark costs are $300 to the driving candidate. This scavenger hunt requires trips to six different places at least once each. From what I’ve been told, most require long waits of sometimes hours. Of course, no actual safety training is required though.
The regulations are more rigorous than most professions, and definitely more than needed to be a mayor or a city council member. But at least they haven’t demanded a copy of drivers’ emails and online forum postings yet, like they have from Houston area pastors.
It’s never good enough to just provide desirable public transportation, they want to confiscate private automobiles to force people to use what ever they supply as public transportation regardless of cost, comfort or utility.
Obama wants to eliminate 400,000 cars for good and put another 50,000 illegals on welfare this MONTH!
I wonder what happens when one of these Ubermobiles gets into an accident. Who gets sued?