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by nuclearnice1 1137 days ago
Probably too simplistic.

Innovation serves some and “disrupts” others.

Uber might be a handy ride for you. A NYC cabbie who is in debt for his medallion might see it the opposite.

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And by the law, Uber should be illegal. That they broke the law and got popular enough to apply political pressure does not mean that they were not technically illegal the entire time.

There's no contradiction here. If certain applications are illegal, you don't get to decide that regulation is inconvenient to your "innovation" and deal with the consequences later. Or rather, that is exactly what you do to make $megabux, and that's what should not be allowed.

I think your point about law breaking is good. Facebook, Uber, AirBnB. Too much law breaking in the name of innovation.

I intended to make a narrower more trivial observation that innovation produces winners and losers. Innovation is just competition.