This is heartbreaking. But I remember the days of being a lone 20-something female trying to get a ride in the outer boroughs and driver after driver rejecting me because they were trying to get their next ride back to Manhattan. The disruption happened because we needed it.
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At the same time, this is a good example of how the free market hurts people. Nobody should get it twisted.
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I made the mistake of taking a yellow cab from SFO to my downtown hotel last year. The guy claimed his CC machine didn’t work only after we pulled up, wouldn’t let me out of the car if I didn’t pay cash, and threatened to drive me to nearest bank if necessary. So yeah.
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He turned off the meter, so I quickly realized his hustle in trying to get cash to fake the fare in his favor, rather than totally on the books with a card. A direct result of the rideshare boom hurting true cabbies, but doesn’t excuse rude behavior and bad service.
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Eesh it’s true. Actually that makes me think of another by-product of The Uber Economy: I can get a cab in any country without worrying that I’m going to be ripped off or taken the wrong way, which has always been the case for the traditional taxi industry.
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Yeah. Cabbies are still playing the same games. It sucks that good ones with expensive medallions are affected by industry change, but most Uber/Lyft drivers are young immigrants creating new lives for themselves in the US, UK, etc. with this job and I’d rather support that rn.
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Yea why shouldn't I as a London cabbie be forced out of work by an American company who pays no tax over here paying its drivers slave wages? Way to go for the future
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Ok that’s a whole other issue.
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No sympathy here for them. They were a monopoly. They didn’t give customers a good experience. Competition, in the end, won over. That’s the American way.
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Let me be clearer: your lack empathy and your no better than the Trump supporters you hate.
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It has also decreased DUIs. Please don't blame UBER....Taxi's are great however very expensive. This should encourage taxi drivers to improve their services and become more competitive.
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The problem is they often took loans out for now hugely overpriced medallions. They saw the medallion’s value as part of retirement
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To be clear - what they paid was overpriced compared to what they are worth now.
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Why don't they just become Uber drivers?
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I thought the same thing. I know for some older drivers they don't wanna get with the program... but joining uber seems like it would be the logical move.
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I think medallions peaked at over a million $ - now they have little value and the drivers are in hock. Driving for uber doesn’t change that
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Damn my bitcoins are down too, you don't see me crying about it.
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