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It looks like you're point eventually arises as, "Uber gouges its customers".

If you don't like Uber or Lyft or any free-adult private-car driving-for-money price arrangements then don't be a customer. .
Problem solved.

Don't use Uber if you don't want to. It's optional. I wish I was an Uber exec, the pay looks terrific. Maybe you're a cabbie.
The taxi system is an ancient implementation that can't keep up with the modern world. The world moves on. Hell, this is /. And in 2015 no less. Are you accessing it on a BBS? Are you even supporting your local BBS?
And why aren't you researching this argument in a paper version of World Book Encyclopedia at the school library?
If I want to pay someone for a ride in their vehicle, that's our right. You don't like it, so delete the Uber app and leave the rest of us alone.

Then don't use Uber. It's optional. If Uber violates its price contract, then Uber will answer in litigation and loss of customers.

Your anecdotal evidence points out an interesting aspect of the Uber argument. There may be countries where Uber is unnecessary due to a high quality existing taxi network. Uber will fail where the market offers no foothold.

It sounds like that's the case in your 'hellhole' (as an aside, if Swedish women are a ubiquitous feature of 'hellholes' then I'm investing long in hellhole futures)

For the US, most towns and cities have virtually zero cab service. Very large cities do, and the customer satisfaction concerning quality, cleanliness, and wait times is such that Uber and Uber clones are very successful. As is often the case with low-approval industries, the cab industry left itself open to this, and technology allowed Uber to plug the, um, 'Uber-size' hole of demand.

Government, even at it's maximum performance level of Full Glacier Speed, is not naturally adaptable to the rapid advancement of possibilities in a connected culture of free adults.

Why a government needs to interfere with one adult sharing a car ride with another adult, who freely exchange an agreed-upon amount of cash, is the real question that is finally becoming more widely considered (now that it affects your grandma who likes Uber)

Not this this has any bearing on The Fine Article, where it looks like an adult or group of adults may have defrauded other adults through deception.
Theoretically, the ancient legal problem of enforcing contracts should be something governments are super-efficient at by now.

Truly.

7 words back of that is "$200" ...so the astute mind would assume $ as the unit referenced.

Must have had an Amazon handslapping.

LMGTFY

George Bush Monkey Photos

Bush haters, from the days when Obama was merely organizing communities.

Image a world with a device that converts Star Trek nerd rage into electricity.

If the grid dims, just announce a new Star Trek / Star Wars crossover movie and watch our green future come true.

We'll stockpile some 'strategic nerdrage inducing' topics for peak demand periods...

Such as:
"Help me, Wesley Crusher, you're my only hope"
"Starfleet says we can't exceed Warp 3 on the Kessel Run"
"I felt a disturbance in subspace, like a billion midichlorians just experienced a transporter malfunction."

I think I made the points that
- we leave them alone to enjoy their earnings in peace, and.
- earning is a good thing, even if you are really, really good at earning.

The risk of arbitrarily deciding that you don't approve of my spending, or you want to take charge of my spending because you've established an arbitrary measure of how 'fast' you perceive my money is 'churning' is an affront to liberty. And you've condemned my choices of investment to non-existence.

You know it's not some finite pie, a slice of which I've hidden away selfishly.
Housing in the U.S has gained trillions in value this year, the pie just grew bigger.

Economic liberty trumps meddling, and any system that depends on violating liberty in order to exist is a false economy.

By the way, it gets worse...
I asked my son's self-described leftist high school teacher if he would be confiscating points from the lucky students with ability (whose averages were over 75) and redistributing those points to the unfortunates who needed those points to pass. Fairness would be everyone getting a 70. He seemed genuinely upset..

I'll get modded into the ground, but whatever.

To teach my early teen kids about money, I offered them $20 apiece for each example they could list of how our "rich" neighbor could do something with his money that doesn't benefit me ( besides piling up his cash and burning it to death )

My son went first... "he could buy a million dollar car". (note: he actually drives a 2+ million dollar Veyron, but whatever)
Reply: "Nice try... But I'm a car salesman / builder / mechanic / own stock in GEICO insurance / sell gasoline & car parts / etc... He helped me even if he didn't intend to."

Daughter: "He could put it all in a bank account."
Reply : "Smart girl, but I'm a banker, that guy was super helpful opening up that account, since we need reserve deposits... if he had picked a stock market account that would also be great, my company sells stock to investors so we can expand and build more widgets, and we issue bonds for the same reason..."

In fact, I made it "easier" for the kids... assume that guy is a hateful jerk... now just list what he could do with his money to prevent anyone else from benefitting. What move can he make with his earnings that would benefit no one but himself ?

Anybody here want to guess how much I paid out? right... and thankfully my kids have not learned jealousy of other people's legal gains.

The end of the lesson was this:

The origin of "greed" is rooted in the concept of lusting for what you haven't earned. In context, it's similar to 'coveting'.
It's not evil to want to earn more by serving as many people as you can honestly.


And while we reserve the right to snicker at people who buy solid gold cell phone cases, we don't fall into the trap of greedily wanting to decide if they deserve it (after all, someone willingly traded it for their services) or if they are using their own money as we would. If they're bad stewards, they won't have it long, and in the meantime they can't help but serve others with that money, no matter what they do with it.

(That Veyron driving neighbor sells rap music, a lot of rap music I suppose... but it's a legal living)

" Inside that "Dead Zone" the water contain no oxygen"

Step 1. Find Connecticut-sized container
Step 2. Something something
Step 3. Profit.

He actually said, "...by 2026 I will put a human, specifically my ex-wife, on Mars"

And as a gold digger, she may qualify as the mission's mining engineer.