[TeMPOraL]

It sucked, but not everywhere equally. Meanwhile, Uber rode their one-trick pony (an app), which everyone quickly replicated, all the way to upending taxi businesses worldwide, thanks to their infinite money supply letting them survive long enough in any new market to get the public behind them, which took away support from local regulators trying to keep the market from being gutted by what at this point was a multinational corporation (and technically a criminal enterprise).

Sure, taxi services aren't usually known to be paragons of virtue, but then they weren't that bad everywhere; Uber is just another case of an US org trying to address an US-specific problem and then bludgeoning the entire world with their solution, whether the rest of the planet has such problems or not.

[ChadNauseam]

That seems a little dramatic. They never forced anyone to take an uber right? If taxis were so amazing in other countries why would anyone be interested in switching to uber?

[mrguyorama]

Uber was able to subsidize prices, that's why.

[theshackleford]

> It sucked, but not everywhere equally.

Ok, but “everywhere” isn’t my problem. They sucked everywhere I had to use one which is my problem.

> they weren’t that bad everywhere

They were beyond a joke where I am from, which is not the US. Even today, they remain a worse option.

> US specific problem

There was nothing US specific about it.