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Comment by trekky1700 | Hacker News Reader

Saw the tweets this morning, a bit terrifying. Humanity always somehow surprises me in its capacity for meaningless violence.

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Sadly, they probably see the uber drivers as scabs. Even though that's like if the Police went on strike, and started beating up employed security guards...

In this case, they ARE scabs.

How so? Are they Taxi drivers? Are Taxi drivers in Paris in a Industrial Union or a Craft Union?

Do you feel like their violence against other citizens are justified?

Fear of survival for yourself and your family? How's that meaningless? Perhaps misdirected, though clearly they're worried.

The fear isn't meaningless, but the violence is. There is no reality where smashing the windows on a cab is going to change their situation.

Makes other people less likely to drive for Uber, eh?

And for taxis themselves; people who destroy other companies cars are not my favorite drivers.

I suppose, I guess almost all violence then becomes meaningful too. I guess unnecessary would be the better word.

Though really I just don't want to live on this planet anymore.

So keep engaging with it and helping lead it to change through example. However if you get tired of that, I hear there are applications to live in Mars. I have ambitious long-term plans to help impact this in a practical way if you're interested in hearing. I'm living in Toronto currently too. It feels like I am quite far away from having the team together I will need to execute it all, though hoping it's only around the corner.

You mean just like setting fire to schools for girls will make it less likely that girls get educations?

Well, it will. That action is many things, but it's not meaningless.

Exactly like that, except against regulatory arbitrage rather than the religious suppression of women.

So this is the point where I say 'so terrorism is allowed when it's against something you disagree with', and you say 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'?

Its not meaningless, just misdirected. Perhaps directing their angst at their own government which instituted these regulations would be a good start...

to be fair, it's not meaningless. it's very much done to instill fear into the Uber drivers, who they most likely see as scabs.

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