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Yes companies and people should disobey the law more often, we should all strive to minimize the effects of government control and coercion enabling us to lead our lives as we see fit for the short time we're on earth.

For me, I'm happy Uber is around today, most likely because the flouted the law. Win/Win for me and them IMO.

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You do realize your cheap transportation is partially built on the backs of hundreds of rape cases,[1] right?

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62158976

I'm not really sure I agree Uber was "built" by cab drivers, but for the sake of argument, sure, but what's the alternative? The subway has way more crime.

We live in a culture saturated with rape.

In which "justifying rape" is only recently (I am getting old. Last decades) gone out of fashion.

Some call it a "rape culture", with some justification.

Uber is a part of that culture, and it is an open question just where on the spectrum of "angelic operator" to "dangerous predation" they lie. But the claim: "cheap transportation is partially built on the backs of hundreds of rape cases" is only true because of "partially". I think it is a weak claim.

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