[ThomPete]

Uber is trying to change the rules that you have to have a license to be able to drive taxi. Thats the part you are missing here. Its not about the technology its about the legislation.

They dont just expand slower they get bought by american companies not the other way around that is part of the problem which is what this whole discussion is about.

There is nothing to back up your claim that they are more resistant to a down market. How many European social networks are left? How many European transportation companies are in the US? The list is long of american companies dominating the markets in the EU not the other way around.

That is the core of this discussion no matter your obvious ideological reasoning.

[kuschku]

> There is nothing to back up your claim that they are more resistant to a down market. How many European social networks are left? How many European transportation companies are in the US? The list is long of american companies dominating the markets in the EU not the other way around.

Great, so companies based on making billions of losses a year were able to buy competitors that had to make profits.

That is more a sign for Silicon Valley being yet another investment bubble instead of a sign for SV somehow being "better"

[ThomPete]

Again you are confusing your political/ideological views with what this discussion is about.

I am pretty critical of ubers methods but thats not what we are discussing here. Uber is just one example out of many american companies that challenges legislation to disrupt an industry. European companies don't do that and thats one of the reasons why there are no European uber, airbnb etc.

You can think thats a good thing but thats not what we are discussing here.