RE: Italian Court Bans Uber Over Concerns of 'Unfair Competition'
When you paid such a sum for a license, and you likely have debts with a bank for it, it is obvious that you are against anyone doing the same you do, but without that extra cost. To be fair, Uber drivers should buy such a license too, or the state should refund taxi driver or exstinguish their debt.
Anyway, to say the truth, taxi drivers are guilty of their own misery. Many of them contributed directly or indirectly to keep the “license markets” (selling/buying licenses) high, even blocking municipalities from issuing new licenses at their original cost, which isn't so high. Some of them wanted licenses to be a scarse good to keep high their prices in order to speculate on those; others wanted to preserve the value of their investment, to avoid to remain only with a huge debts.
The situation won't be normalized until those debts finish or become sustainable.
Maybe the licenses are a problem in the first place?
As italian I would prefered the second option by far!
there should not be any centralization on force involved when it comes to one person needing a ride, and one person wanting to offer them a ride for something in exchange. It becomes quite the bureaucratic mess otherwise. Competition is better for the consumer,monopolies are not.
luckily, innovation continues to find a way around the nonsense of the state, the p2p economy is still flourishing despite them trying to stunt the progress :)
yes!