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Was The Uber guys doing bad hustle then... not knowing who gets hurt...

The nature of disruption is that some people will get hurt.. Taxi medallion/Hotel owners folks think they are playing by the rules while others aren't...

The market seems to have rewarded the bad hustlers here then as per your definition or have I got it wrong.

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It's interesting how via the "sharing" industry the term "disruption" has now devolved into simply breaking the law in a highly predictable manner.

(Predictable as in: doing exactly what the law was meant to put a stop to in the first place, so obviously not "innovative". And in many cases, like for instance UberPop, not even creative enough to find an actually loophole, but blatantly breaking the law.)

It's not black and white. I'm not for or against Uber. Have never used the service and know very little about the actual company. Markets are irrational. They are a collection of people who need/want something. They will buy without much thought to the moral status of the seller. You are not wrong, but not exactly rigbt. We can't judge a whole company for the actions of some members. That's why I said there is some not so good hustling. It's hard to figure out this sort of things because you never know the while story. If you feel like this is something worth pursuing over a period of time longer than what this thread will allow feel free to email me. In hardly have all the answers, but I can definitely come up with some good questions. And no, I didn't answer your question because I just don't know.

I'm not entirely sure about the hotel industry, but for the most part the taxi industry in most cities lobbied for the laws, which restricted competition. They had dug their own grave by the time Lyft launched (and subsequently UberX).

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