[bowlofpetunias]

It's interesting how the tech start-up community suffers from the same inability to shift perspective that Microsoft had when it became a powerful megacorp but still saw itself as the underdog.

Uber is not the plucky little start-up going up against big, slow incumbent corporations, like many tech start-ups did in the past.

Uber is the heavily funded 800-pound gorilla going after the livelihoods of the little guy.

So yes, some taxi-markets could do with changes, but the heavy handed and callous approach of greed-driven "disruption" is totally out of place here. We're talking ordinary hard working cab drivers, not fat cats in the boardroom of MegaCorp.

If anybody wonders where the growing hate against the tech community comes from, they may want to start looking in the mirror.

There's a difference between arguing that innovative disruption may temporarily cause some pain and openly pissing on those who find themselves on the wrong side of that change. There is way too much of the latter going on here.

[collyw]

I guess you haven't had the misfortune of being ripped of by London taxi drivers.