HBR: “Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down”
https://hbr.org/2017/06/uber-cant-be-fixed-its-time-for-regulators-to-shut-i... Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down Benjamin Edelman June 21, 2017 From many passengers’ perspective, Uber is a godsend — lower fares than taxis, clean vehicles, courteous drivers, easy electronic payments. Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. [...] (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))
But Uber succeeded in making lawbreaking normal and routine by celebrating its subversion of the laws relating to taxi services. Look at the company’s stated values <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/07/uber-work-culture-travis-...> — “super-pumped,” “always be hustlin’,” and “bold.” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote.
Uber’s lawyers were complicit in building a culture of illegality.
Eh... ma il mercato si auto regola! C'è la mano invisibile... lo sciopero fiscale... :-) The 16th-century financier Sir Thomas Gresham famously observed that bad
money drives out good <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law>. The same, I’d suggest, is true about illegal business models. If we allow an illegal business model to flourish in one sector, soon businesses in that sector and others will see that the shrewd strategy is to ignore the law, seek forgiveness rather than permission, and hope for the best.
Ma se sono dei pivelli! Ricordi il decreto legge 807/1984? In piena prima repubblica, in Italia, l'efficenza del bicameralismo perfetto a fronte di vera necessità ed urgenza, rimane insuperata. Giacomo 2018-06-18 9:21 GMT+02:00 J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it>:
https://hbr.org/2017/06/uber-cant-be-fixed-its-time-for- regulators-to-shut-it-down
Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
- Benjamin Edelman <https://hbr.org/search?term=benjamin+edelman>
June 21, 2017 [image: jun17-21-183352662]From many passengers’ perspective, Uber is a godsend — lower fares than taxis, clean vehicles, courteous drivers, easy electronic payments. Yet the company’s mounting <http://www.uberscandals.org/> scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1s08BdVqCgrUVM4UHBpTGROLXM/view> from former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
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(Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))
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