2/ And none of these is socialism. Individual drivers owning their cars is the EXACT OPPOSITE of socialism - it's many small capital owners, rather than one large capital owner. "OMG, the American housing plan requires people to own their own houses - SOCIALISM!" wat?
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Perhaps so! But I'm trying to abstract to a broader mental model of what normies think of a business.
@JASutherlandBks defends Uber/Lyft by saying they aren't taxi companies. But what do people think of them as? Taxi companies. -
Tate runs a camgirl business. What is he? A pimp. He may not call himself a pimp, but that's what he is. There is never any environment where a company can operate in an abstraction vacuum of expectation, whatever those may be.
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One thing big companies generally do well is Marketing. It's expensive to build a brand/establish in-roads nationally, etc... Uber is leveraging this - leaving the individual contractor to do what they do best: know their own areas, provide better service, etc...
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So Uber takes on those things that are expensive and difficult for the small business dude. But leaves everything else open. You choose your car (as long as it's not a rat trap). You choose how much or how little you want to work. It's more choice for the driver, not less.
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The taxicab industry was a perfect example of how Democrats think business should be regulated. The government decides how many taxis, what they can charge, where they have to serve, regulates the drivers ... and people hated it and stopped using them once Uber came around.
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