why do you think this is a step closer to war? i feel like it’s a kind of olive branch to avoid the next uber scenario (theoretically at least, who knows in practice)
what scenario? if your implication is uber wouldn’t exist if the local sf government were in charge of what new things we were allowed to build then i agree with you, and that would be horrible, and every single person in the tech industry should absolutely be opposed to this.
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The implication being Uber, outside causing medallion owners to shit themselves, wasn't great for the city. I think the whole Office of Emerging Technology is a terrible and bullshit approach, but you can't just get all partisan and pretend all of Uber has been for the better
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unclear what metric you could possibly be using to determine what’s “great for the city” besides popularity among citizens, and eager to see what happens when a mayor runs on the platform of banning uber
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This is like NYC banning film production to avoid another Harvey Weinstein scenario
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“war” strikes me as a hyperbolic, if illustrative, word choice. did you mean this literally? if so, what is a city’s motivation for “killing” payroll tax revenue, or other things that typically come from startups operating, and growing, in town?
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my implication was “company enters arena by intentionally thwarting regulators” instead of, say, “in cooperation with said regulators” but im pretty sure you and most people in this thread believe that the first way is the only way, unless im mistaken
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but yeah i dont know what “common good” means and it seems pretty ill defined very curious what execution will look like here
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You are correct that this office would have choked out Uber, and that would have been bad. However, this is the result of the scooter people leaving even more shit on our sidewalks than
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