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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What I like about Uber is that I have my own rating, and it's within my control (mostly) to keep it so high that no Uber driver would ever not pick me up. Cabbies are racist assholes who frequently refuse to pick me up. So their business model can go straight down the drain for all I care.
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I have less of a problem with Uber here in TCOTU than I do with Air BnB. Uber here is essentially a central dispatch and payment app for the already-existing car service industry (Lyft probably has almost as much of a gripe with Uber as the taxi medallion owners do), while Air BnB is causing the creation of business owned unlicensed hotels in residential buildings. (And, yes, that happened before Air BnB, too, but not on anywhere near the same scale.)
Plus, it seems like the medallion owners here are more pissed about the city authorizing the "borough" medallions - the apple green cabs. Losing airport traffic to them, it seems.
It will be interesting, though, to see how the wage and hours cases against Uber and Lyft go. Given the fact that being an independent contractor for the Feds doesn't automatically mean that you are one in the eyes of the State of California, or New York, they've got to win them all.
