DaRealness
I think very deeply
Serves their right. Karma is a bytch. 
Uber and Lyft got these Taxi Drivers Bodying themselves
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fukk em how many times I've been done dirty by racist cab drivers it's a joke fukk em eat shyt and die they do brothers and sisters the foulest over charge like fukk to
606onit
Superstar
fukk those leeches. It's not like they put in ANY WORK to get this country to the point it is now. They just show up when the GETTING IS GOOD and now that it's not, they wanna swan dive into rivers. 
Well keep diving you open-bootied Greg Louganis parasites. 
Well keep diving you open-bootied Greg Louganis parasites. 
I really don't see how they have an adapted in all this time. They used to rule Midtown to downtown.
Refused to go uptown.
Charged like a bytch for airports until the flat rate was and implemented.
I hope the gouging Lincoln car cabbies feel the squeeze too. They abused the fact they used to be the only play in town where cabbies would not go.
Refused to go uptown.
Charged like a bytch for airports until the flat rate was and implemented.
I hope the gouging Lincoln car cabbies feel the squeeze too. They abused the fact they used to be the only play in town where cabbies would not go.
During my last trip to New York back in 2016 I noticed cabs were cheaper than Uber. Compared to Atlanta Uber is slow and expensive in New York. I don't want to see either industry collapse. Let them both compete and the consumer wins.
I agree that the gig economy screws people over even more, but it's still a better solution than the goofy medallion system. The end of that was inevitable as it never made sense... they have non medallion cabs already and it's not like things could never change.
Do you think schools teach/tought us a bad narrative of life/capitalism growing up?
xXOGLEGENDXx
Superstar
I remember a few cab drivers who were downplaying and talking shiit when uber/lyft first started coming out. Talking about how it won't work.
Prices, perhaps, ignoring of minorities......let's be real, your average Uber user isn't thinking about "One less cab passing up a black guy" as some poor schlub makes about $2 off that trip hauling them around. I've never used Uber so I wonder what the rate comparisons look like compared to what I'm used to via a cab. Cab dispatching was also an issue as no one had to come get you. There are so many Ubers out there someone will come get you. I definitely see the benefits but there's no winner here except the consumer (for now) and the company. Taxi driver's are in debt and Uber has been reduced to one hustle of many. If Uber usurped taxi dominance and saw to it that it was a sustainable career option for it's drivers I would be behind it. Instead it has begun pushing this low wage gig culture and I just don't see that as good for society in the long run.
It should always be about the consumer, the main reason cabbies are losing is cause they charge more. Uber is cheaper and for services that are essentially the same, people are going to go with the cheaper option.
I think ppl missing the main point. Cabbie bought the medallion for 700k, he planned to sell it to the next person for profit, they even went up to a millie at one time.. Instead the value plummeted drastically.
Same thing happens to nyc hot dog vendors.
Same thing happens to nyc hot dog vendors.
Killing yourself over money is insane ...
There is always another way
There is always another way
Some teachers tell you the truth about how the world is but they are rare
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
IMO, NYC, and maybe a couple other cities, is the one city where they should better regulate ridesharing - at least in the more trafficked areas. Cabs are easy to come by and cheap, not like other places where you might have to call a cab ahead of time and pay an arm and a leg. No need to wait for uber/Lyft in 90% of manhattan, 50% of Brooklyn and queens.
That said, them (and philly and Boston) cab drivers liked to be
about picking up black passengers, bet they'd stop for a black person now 
That said, them (and philly and Boston) cab drivers liked to be
about picking up black passengers, bet they'd stop for a black person now
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Reasonably priced is relative, cabs in ny, bos, philly, Chicago weren't expensive, they have a big industry. Of course in Cali and other states where most people own cars they cost more, but when you have fewer cabs and a much smaller ridership, why/how would their fares makes sense being the same as a place like NYC where they had 85-90% utilization rates?
