Professor Michael Munger derides taxi companies

Terry Blue

  Uber cutting the middle man is a topic that Duke University and top professor of libertarian values Michael Munger often discusses when talking about the transitional economy and technology's impact. Uber is basically an arrangement where a person needs a driver and can access to a deal with a driver away from the traditional taxi services which imports drivers from faraway Arabian lands. Munger was incensed that Uber was shut out by the California labor commission as tis is a group. The California Labor Commission is actually an advocacy group, for labor. Not for Uber drivers, though that is the way that this decision is justified on paper. The CLC is advocating for taxi drivers, and other employees of companies that need to die as professor Munger rightfully points out. Munger is often an expert in the media of this issue and describing why Uber and ride-sharing services are so much better than taxi company cartels that had long abandoned the traditional native-born worker in a global workforce where clarity and customer service came last. Munger said that his experiences with Uber have been significantly better than his experiences with traditional cab companies.

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“I went out front and called the Uber software, and I was picked up in three minutes,” Munger said. “I live in the woods, and it would have taken 45 minutes with a taxi and even then I wouldn’t have been sure when they were getting close. The interface with a taxi company is just brutally rude and awkward at every point, whereas Uber is smooth.”. This fact is dead on but the next comment by orofessor munger really is dead on and rings this blog with glee and happiness that he stated in a local North Carolina press...

 

 

“I’m not sure when I’m going to get picked up, it's stressful and the drivers are often extremely rude and don’t speak English,” Munger said of traditional cab companies. “I also have to give detailed directions about where I’m going, whereas Uber integrates both the payment and the GPS, so I don’t have to tell the driver anything.”

 

  Munger is a personal libertarian favorite punching bag of this blog but on this issue he is dead on. Taxi cartels need to go and technology may finally help play the destruction of this urban cronyism long a corrupt and unnerving political influential voice in local politics much more so than it ever needed be.

This industry just imported their workers through a chain migratory pay-to-play workforce that drastically changed the workforce of taxi drivers and the few American born drivers they did hire were of suspicious and erratic mental behavior. The taxi system was an Ponzi scheme of creating unregulated phony medallion asset wealth and accumulated value based on cronism bullshit. This is a system that was crying out for change and thankfully we have Lyft and Uber to thank despite attempts to slow their growth and access to all markets as we have seen tried in California and elsewhere.