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Comment by sgt101 | Hacker News Reader

Surely: shocking how some people go after their own self interest, without giving a damn about anyone else.

Tech bro and his pockets smashing up his society while the world burns.

Much of the "disruption" that came over the past decade can be attributed to someone wanting to be [something] while being treated like [something else], trying to write their own rules, fill their pockets, with little regard to what anyone else thinks or does.

The blanket excuse is always "We are a tech company". No, you are a company who brought more tech to the field but still very much in the same field.

I for one am grateful for all that "disruption." The much needed improvement in the areas of transportation, accommodation, payment, etc. might never have happened if all these companies stuck by the old rules.

Almost no improvement in transportation.

You must not know what taxis used to be like.

> might never have happened if all these companies stuck by the old rules.

Then change the rules. Breaking them and pretending you are better is not the way. This is the most common excuse when people break the law.

There are hundreds of examples where you'd feel less than grateful if someone "disrupted" the sector by breaking the law and I'm sure you can think of a few. Off the top of my head, law enforcement agencies are "disrupting" the justice system by bypassing due process and warrants, just to optimize and make things better of course. Just because it suits you once in a while doesn't make it acceptable.

You could have used this line of reasoning on civil disobedience in the 60s. Sometimes it just has to be done that way. I don't particularly care that uber or airbnb broke some laws I didn't strongly agree with in the first place.

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