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Uber just doesn't get the whole concept of regulations do they?

I understand violating ones that are "dumb" and hurt your business (e.g. taxi medallions) or those that it's easier to just do it and figure out hte results later (e.g. insurance) but this is literally "get the permit first".

They should process this nice and sloooooooooooow.

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I don't know about regulations, but Uber has made traveling around my city a cheap and pleasurable experience for me, which was certainly not the case before with the so called "legal and regulated taxis", constantly offering shit service and outright scamming people. When it seems like the regulations are not helping consumers, it's only natural that the consumers will not care if a company follows them.

> Uber just doesn't get the whole concept of regulations do they?

I think you don't get the whole concept of free market capitalism behind Uber - any regulation they can't simply ignore if they choose to hurts their business by definition.

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