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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Feb 6

    While Uber has sold “disruption” as positive for riders, for many taxi workers, it has been devastating. Bankruptcies, foreclosures and eviction notices are plaguing drivers who are navigating paralyzing depression.http://nyti.ms/2nI0iyp 

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      2. tova‏ @imtova Feb 6
        Replying to @nytimes

        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.

        1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
      3. tova‏ @imtova Feb 6
        Replying to @imtova @nytimes

        At the same time, this is a good example of how the free market hurts people. Nobody should get it twisted.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Bugatti Sleighship  🎄‏ @gloveinhand Feb 6
        Replying to @imtova @nytimes

        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.

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. Bugatti Sleighship  🎄‏ @gloveinhand Feb 6
        Replying to @gloveinhand @imtova @nytimes

        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.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. tova‏ @imtova Feb 6
        Replying to @gloveinhand @nytimes

        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.

        2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
      7. Bugatti Sleighship  🎄‏ @gloveinhand Feb 6
        Replying to @imtova @nytimes

        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.

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Terry‏ @Boristhepider Feb 6
        Replying to @gloveinhand @imtova @nytimes

        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

        2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      9. tova‏ @imtova Feb 6
        Replying to @Boristhepider @nytimes

        Ok that’s a whole other issue.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Greg Shugar‏Verified account @GregShugar Feb 6
        Replying to @nytimes

        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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      4. Greg Shugar‏Verified account @GregShugar Feb 6
        Replying to @MyDickerson @nytimes

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      6. Greg Shugar‏Verified account @GregShugar Feb 6
        Replying to @MyDickerson @nytimes

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      7. The Purple Threat‏ @MyDickerson Feb 6
        Replying to @GregShugar @nytimes

        Let me be clearer: your lack empathy and your no better than the Trump supporters you hate.

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      2. Pam Cornelius Nevill‏ @pam_nevill Feb 6
        Replying to @nytimes

        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.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. PS‏ @PS0302 Feb 6
        Replying to @pam_nevill @nytimes

        The problem is they often took loans out for now hugely overpriced medallions. They saw the medallion’s value as part of retirement

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. PS‏ @PS0302 Feb 6
        Replying to @PS0302 @pam_nevill @nytimes

        To be clear - what they paid was overpriced compared to what they are worth now.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Jonathan Warren‏ @jonnyweeno Feb 6
        Replying to @nytimes

        Why don't they just become Uber drivers?

        4 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
      3. Juicy Gentlman‏ @DariusAmore Feb 6
        Replying to @jonnyweeno @nytimes

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. PS‏ @PS0302 Feb 6
        Replying to @DariusAmore @jonnyweeno @nytimes

        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

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Jonathan Warren‏ @jonnyweeno Feb 6
        Replying to @PS0302 @DariusAmore @nytimes

        Damn my bitcoins are down too, you don't see me crying about it.

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