[caruber]

While i condemn the violence, i have hard time justifying uber as a new revolution or advancement of technology.

Medallion owners pay close to 1.0 M $ to get the Taxi license from the city (NY) and they are not doing that for charity. If a new middlemen like Uber try to take the market without paying single dime it is bound to cause issues who have played by rules and invested significant money to acquire the license.

Uber simply tries to aggregate the demand side and demand concessions from the supply side to get the leads. Portraying Uber as egalitarian is wrong in so many levels.

[Fomite]

It's sad how often "Regulation and taxes are for other people" gets relabeled as "Disruption". See: Uber, AirBnB

[kazagistar]

Right, but it is not always uber that is at fault; maybe paying a million dollars to drive a taxi is where the problem is?