• RubberDuck
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    22 hours ago

    History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme. A lot of this kind of stuff happened in the taxi world in the Netherlands and other countries, leading to heavy regulation of the taxi branch.

    Intransparent pricing, price gouging customers, violent conflicts between taxi companies. Then the tech bros came in, started trying to offer rides by unlicensed drivers, using whatever vehicle the driver had, called it surge pricing and tried to claim the rules did not apply to them.

    And now you see some places have come full circle.

  • @Siegfried
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    44 hours ago

    This happened in Argentina for a long time too. They did a lot to prevent uber from taking market from the taxi mafia.

    Credit cards were not allowed for a long time and while taking an uber you would generally be asked to sit on the front sit to act as if this was a friend driving you or something.

  • @andrewta
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    2513 hours ago

    If you can’t beat 'em, beat them up

  • @Melonpoly
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    112 hours ago

    Typical South Africa

    • @[email protected]
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      -113 hours ago

      Oh wow the bot isn’t telling people what to think anymore.

      No US-centric left-right scale, no “accuracy” rating decided by the guy who runs it, etc, etc.

      Very nice. This bot should shut up more often.