Comment Re:Threats? (Score 1) 273
You want rationality in fear mongering? o.k. – I will try.
Sony feels big. Everybody knows them and almost everybody has bought a Sony product at one time or another.
You want to make it look like it is big bad corporation against the little, helpless, city hall. So you want Uber to look as big as possible. Using market cap, as discussed, is about as distortive as one can get.
But people have a hard time knowing what a 17b dollar company looks like. How big is that? So you find some other company to compare. What other companies are out there that are also about 17b in size? One could use Dollar General or Chipotle, but they don't feel that big. Could Dollar General really take down city hall? One could use Omnicore but who the hell knows about them?