[kuschku]

And then the taxi companies actually provide a neat app which tells you how much the ride will cost, and allows you to book from your phone directly in Germany (taxi.eu).

It’s hard to justify uber when they have the same comfort, same prices, but treat employees worse, and refuse to operate within the same laws.

Uber only has advantages in the areas where they can provide cheaper prices, and they often can only provide these by breaking rules (like the insurance in the beginning) or by mistreating employees (which they classify as "subcontractors". This Scheinselbstständigkeit is going to lead to legal issues for uber in the future, too).

And, additionally, while local taxi companies can operate on small margins – and the profit ends up back in the local economy – Uber has investors at Wall Street to please, and their profit ends up in New York, not in the local economies.