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Having just returned from Australia on vacation, I'll say it was extremely inconvenient when Uber wasn't in a region. We even managed to get stuck in a small airport because there were no regular taxis, and the local Taxi app simply didn't work for the required 2fa with a foreign phone number (though the UI for selecting country was there, no text was ever received).
Uber is great when available while traveling. Makes life so much easier.
That said, I fully support regulating them to have to support their drivers as any other employer. Fuck them and their repeated threats to their ball and go home. Force them out of every market until they concede and restructure.
Um, you do realise that the only reason you couldn't get a normal taxi was because Uber's business model was to destroy the industry and take over?
... yes, they destroyed the taxi industry in a remote airport where they never rolled out service to. Right.
Oh boy 😂
Edit - I should explain
Uber never rolled out service to the airport because it wasn't profitable enough, that would be the only reason
The few remaining taxi drivers still in work after Uber destroyed their industry won't go to the airport, for the same reason Uber didn't. But now the taxi drivers are even less likely to go there as they're forced to go where the money is, wherever that may be
Let's face it, if you ever used Uber to save yourself a few dollars, it was at Uber's expense; they made a loss on it
Now the taxi drivers have gone, they have a monopoly and have quadrupled their prices
As they say, there's never one flake of snow that thinks it was responsible for an avalanche
Your point was obvious. It's still awful and makes bad assumptions on taxi availability and demand in an a rural area. Your entire argument seems to be based on city economics of supply and demand at scale.
No worries, keep using Uber and Airbnb