Lara Weber must of received some contributions from the Taxi industry because the tribune member of the editorial board wrote a column about why she wouldn't be taking Uber or Lyft ever again. she wrote a scanting critique of the ride-sharing economy and says basically Uber is a tech-assisted Taxi dispatch and she describes Uber as some private company scam as if taxi industries were not a monopoly for so long in cities.
Lara knows little of the business model Uber and Lyft are trying to create and if left alone by government and pro-taxi editorials these companies would thrive and put these taxi industries in the graveyard were they belong. The taxi industry has long been about inefficient easy gigs for immigrants wasting fuel driving around on dead nights such as Sundays. Uber and Lyft provide services to people when and where they need it and no where in this editorial does Lara Weber talk about the medallion investing and loan shark scam limiting the number of drivers so as to make illusion s of value for these medallions needed to mortgage half of a drivers lifetime earnings just to be able to drive and make some little jingle. Lara Weber knows little of the drive-sharing industry and exactly why she decided to write a piece severly criticizing Uber and Lyft and declaring red flags all over for these companies is unclear. I think I know what the reasons are though and if she wants to take taxis fine but for most people of the millennium generation getting an under of Lyft lift from a dude you know is the preferential model they seek and have established for themselves.
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