Why do we not have Uber/Lyft/Ride sharing?

fortwilliam

Taxi's in this country are a joke.. total rip-off, so self entitled and crap standard of cars.

We need to have the system like US & elsewhere where a vetted car owner can sign up to an app and accept fares at a reasonable price.

Took a taxi over the weekend, 4min20seconds -

Ubbquittious

Race to the bottom. As it stands taxi drivers don't exactly have it good. I saw a quote in some Statesian forum that said something to the effect of "Working for uber is like a payday loan where the interest is the wear on your car"

then you have owners of said "ride sharing" company living it up on their superyachts and pouring all their excess earnings into a program to replace their drivers with robots

El_Duderino 09

Yeah it's not likely the taxi drivers are wealthy. Taxis cost a lot that's just how much they cost and people can choose to use them or not.

Uber and the likes are horrible businesses which cut out everything except the most basic pay to the driver. Their business model is to keep pumping money into the service, knowing they lose money every year and drive all other forms of taxi out of business. Then they'll have a monopoly and will raise prices to make the profit back but still keep the drivers as private contractors with terrible pay and conditions.

I don't think it's a good thing to drive down wages for the workers who already aren't wealthy, in exchange for funnelling the profits to already wealthy investors.

Can't we support the working man sometimes?