[rutledge87]

If regulatory capture weren't a big enough issue, how about some nice, manufactured astroturfing and mental gymnastic rationalizations to cheat employees? Hurray for "disruptive" startups that can buy laws with saturating media with half-truths. Let's not forget Lyft and Uber's business model is to socialize the costs of a taxi business, including vehicle acquisition, maintenance, and deprecation onto the drivers. How is that anything other than stealing from what would otherwise be taxi drivers with economic slavery volunteerism?

PS: Hello from Colorado so far. Bye CA, thanks for all of the earthquakes, fires, and power outages.

[cafard]

You haven't noticed any fires in Colorado yet? And as I recall, we spent about twelve hours without power our first autumn in Colorado long ago--an October snowstorm, or maybe the lightning that accompanied it, saw to that.

I liked Colorado, don't get me wrong.

[Nasrudith]

That is not what any of those words mean at all. Socializing costs means an externality to bear costs to those not a party to the transaction and their drivers are party to tbe transaction.

Stealing by making vehicle owners pay the cost of their vehicles, maintenance, and the drop of value over time? Uber is not entropy itself. Just how would you get that concept?

"Economic slavery volunteerism" just what? That is several different contradictions rolled into one. They are slaves but they only stay around because they are paid and volunteer.