re: #5 electrotek

I can’t believe people here will defend Uber. Uber is no different from Walmart in my opinion.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

I don’t understand the passionate objections, particularly from people on the left, to the likes of Uber. Eliminate Uber, for whatever reason you can twist into, and the market is left to those paragons of ethical employment practice, the taxi companies, and the absolutely absurd anti-competition and anti-consumer medallion schemes taxis operate under. And all the people with odd hours of free time, and an otherwise idle automobile can no longer utilize those resources for generating income.

Enter a company that challenges the model, and all of a sudden those self styled trail blazers for consumer protection against big business and government set up cartels are all for the status quo! Unwilling to attack the system as it had been run, it targets the only entity willing to do so.