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French taxi drivers are the latest to protest the entry of Uber into their protected market. Their protests feature vandalism and blocking roads. From the AP story:
French taxi drivers pulled out the throttle in an all-out confrontation with the ultra-cheap Uber car service Thursday, smashing livery cars, setting tires ablaze and blocking traffic during a nationwide strike that caught tourists and celebrities alike in the mayhem.
[...] Taxi drivers justified their rage, saying Uber's lowest-cost service UberPop was ruining their livihoods.[sic]
[...] Anger seethed across France, with riot police chasing strikers from Paris' ring road, where protesters torched tires and swarmed onto exit ramps during rush hour on the busy artery that leads to Charles de Gaulle airport. In Toulouse in the southwest, angry taxi drivers dumped flour onto UberPop cars, tires were burned in Nantes in the west, and in Lyon, in the southeast, roads were blocked.
Compare this to Uber protests in London.
Vive le monopole!
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Monday June 29 2015, @08:43AM
Basic economics suggest that your business will go bankrupt if the public aren't paying all your expenses, no matter what kind of company you are. If they aren't, your undervaluing your services and your customers aren't paying enough. The agency model of business, where someone else sets it up and walks away, taking a cut no matter what happens after that, is nothing new at all - I've been working for agencies for 15 years, all Uber changes is the contract setup speed and granularity. Your idea about this becoming the norm is unrealistic, failing to take into account the fact that business owners expect a certain level of ability from their employees and (unless they're idiots) won't let the good ones get away - you know, by employing them full time.