That a driver (who already owned a car) had to pay 2x the price of an average house (which is already overpriced) to do the job isn't a secondary effect. Its a primary effect and drives up price and down the driver's pay. That that happened is a 10000ft giant red sign pointing out that it didn't work. That you can't understand that means that you fundamentally don't understand good public policy in any way. Anytime a policy creates such an outcome, that system needs to be scraped and a new one needs to be created because its rotten to the core.
What would this new system look like that doesn’t involve the trade offs between having cabs on demand if you need them and having a walkable city if you don’t that the person you replied to spoke about?
Uber and friends have indeed democratised giving rides to people - though where I am, a few rich people have bought numerous cars and have daily wagers driving them finding fares via Uber - but at the cost of far more cabs on the road.
Others, notably motorbikes and scooter ride aggregators have emerged to replicate Uber. These motorbike cabs are even harder to regulate than cabs.
Uber, imo, has broken the equilibrium that existed before.
You make the medallions non-transferrable/rentable, and use a lottery system to grant them.
Uber has absolutely increased traffic levels in the places where they operate. I don't personally think it's to a level that is actually a problem, but I also avoid driving myself around in cities whenever I can, so I may not be the best at observing this.
Don't kid yourself. I can tell who is and isn't a good athlete from 50 yards away just by how they walk. Hard work matters, but its more about eliminating those with talent rather than allowing those without talent to compete favorably. Also, its a self reinforcing cycle. You have talent, you win, winning is fun, you work harder to win more, goto step 2.
PS The cutoff from HS to college sports is about as extreme as the jump to the pros...its less than 1% each time.
Its more that that's when per-industrialized civilization died. Or more specifically when the old medieval, agrarian aristocracies last trace of wealth and power died. At least in the new world they did...they still seem to have some influence in Europe which to Americans is really weird but I guess its to be expected.
"The New Deal that everyone fawns over was in large part the compromise of the wealthy with the workers to form the Middle Class,"
The middle class was formed 100 years before that, originally in an entire another country and was formed because of the industrial revolution. And what put the the communists in the US on the back foot was the Cold War and the nuclear spying.
We can? All I see is marketing departments quoting questionable research. I also see independent research which says exactly the opposite. Remember, LLMs are mostly trained on Reddit. Would you trust the average Reddit poster with running a large business? I seriously doubt it. That's the level of decision making LLMs have.
That's not why the US is rich. And if the dollar falls, woe to everyone who isn't an American because your future is very bleak in that case. Hope you like digging trenches (and then hiding in them).
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