• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’d rather an illegal cab company doing things right because the ‘official’ unchecked cab company is corrupt doing illegal things and people finally got fed up with it. that shouldn’t have been a thing that needed to happen to get a safe(and reliable and relevant i mean you could enter your credit card for fuck sakes that should have been updated in cabs by then) and affordable enough ride anywhere. That is a sign of a broken system when the word ‘legal’ in application lost all relativity to who it was supposed to protect in that situation. Heck, I’d drop it from all use in this case.

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      11 months ago

      I’d rather an illegal cab company doing things right

      but … it´s obviously not?!

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        11 months ago

        Oh do you prefer the ‘legal’ cab company willfully taking you to a back alley to beat you down and feel untouchable because they are in some sort of union they feel protected by?

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          11 months ago

          taking you to a back alley to beat you down and feel untouchable because they are in some sort of union

          lolwut?

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            11 months ago

            I see you’re lacking enough knowledge of the cab vs uber events to be throwing your hat into the ring.

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            11 months ago

            Unions help their members legally. Apparently if a lot of members are assholes, the union still does its job.

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              11 months ago

              I have trouble to see your point. Do you mean that makes unions a bad thing?

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                Of course not. They’re like a tool. If they are used as a barrier against a potentially abusive employer, they’re great. If they’re used to shield cops from accountability or pay the legal fees of rapists, they’re an obstacle to justice.

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      11 months ago

      How is the illegal cab company doing things right? It’s clearly monopolistic and therefore anti-consumer.

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        One cab driver blackmailed my friend for money to return a phone to her she left in the back seat. One of my friends was threatened to be raped by one and busted her wrist to get away from them. I’ve been physically threatened by cab drivers who want to get sex from women they think are alone. they are protected by a union which is clearly corrupt. I been left out in the cold with a busted ankle. They wouldn’t even call an ambulance for me.

        Haven’t run into that shitty behaviour not even once with Uber.

        Cabs are the mob.

        Up with Uber. Down with cabs.