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What I'm saying is is that the existing system is working pretty well, IMO.

Using Uber as an example, what they do is they just move into a new markets regardless of the current regulations.

Most of the time, the regulators are extremely slow to act, and by the time they get around to acting, Uber has already won the hearts and minds of consumers.

And then the regulators try to act against Uber, until there is massive push back from consumers. This massive push back ends up scaring the regulators into changing the law in Uber's favor, and Uber never ends up being regulated, even though they blatantly broke the law in the first place.

And BAM, Uber wins in the vast majority of situations.

This strategy only works though because the laws are bad in the first place, and Uber is making the industry a much better place for consumers.



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