I prefer to live in a world with taxi and hotel regulation
Please enjoy them, then. The rest of us whose judgment is sufficient to choose our own taxis would appreciate if you kept the cops out of our private choices.
Please enjoy them, then. The rest of us whose judgment is sufficient to choose our own taxis would appreciate if you kept the cops out of our private choices.
Now I'm not saying that the current regulation shouldn't get refreshed to consider what is currently available. But I'm amazed how people are just all or nothing about regulation.
You should want enough regulation so that a basic level of service is guaranteed. If that is not the case, it becomes too hard for customer to efficiently compare services. Like in this case, you should be able to compare taxi companies in less than a few minutes. If you need more than that, then chance are that you will stick with the reliable provider you know. Good competition happens when consumers are willing to try alternative.
I guess what I'm saying is judgement is contextual.
Technology changes, people change so regulations must change with it.
We should version control all laws and regulations and we should debug them when we see people taking advantage of them in unexpected ways.
Do not forget that Uber, TaxiMagic, etc. are still closed and managed environments -- they are simply more opaque, as a corporation is choosing the makeup of that market instead of a government entity.
Laws are already version controlled and debugged when necessary, where does that come from? Laws are amended and repealed all the time, in every level of legislation.
Plus the first one is a market place the second is just one taxi.
Hell I wouldn't mind if a government entity launched an app that did the same thing.
But aside, the problem is not in the individual problem theirselves.
The problem is that an excessive deregulation is a part of a large process of demolition of the human rights of the great majority of the population.
Paradoxically, such huge problem is difficult to notice, because it requires vision.
In a world where there would be an excess of human rights and slow economy, deregulation would be fine. In such world, I would agree to liberalize the taxing and housing.
We're on the opposite side, though. So keeping deregulating is going to make the disaster we're already in even worse.
Quick, tell me which ISP provides fiber to the home with unlimited bandwidth? Only 1, so far, and only in limited areas. If it was ONLY our judgement that determined the quality, then I would be all for it. Unfortunately, there's sometimes a race to the bottom. Regulations help, to a certain extent, to control that. I know I wouldn't want open heart surgery provided by the lowest bidder.
His choice is to allow variety, competition, and customization so that more people get a chance to find the service that satisfies their needs.
I don't think anyone is saying to completely do away with all regulation in every instance - but have you seen the competitive barrier taxi regulation in most metro areas? It's specifically designed to prevent competition from those without massive resources. It's the stereotypical big guy keeping the little guy down with their million dollar medallions and special connections to lawmakers.
Taxi and hotel regulation IMO comes with a safety aspect which should, for example, protect lone or vulnerable travellers from harm (to a limited extent, of course, but some is better than none). Personally, I will accept a bit of restriction to my options in return for widely vetted service provision.
Or do you actually believe that all these regulations are going to prevent somebody from kidnapping people?
I sincerely doubt that.