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jessehazreddit t1_j3m6uga wrote

Reply to comment by DigitalSteven1 in Drones Are Already Delivering Pizza, If You Haven't Noticed by the_remainder_17

Because previously all drivers and taxi services, serving the public at least, normally require(d) licenses. Uber added Eats later.

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joeschmoe86 t1_j43fl8l wrote

And those licenses were usually limited in number, hard to get due to competition, and extremely valuable. Then Uber just came in and ignored all of that, got away with it, and the people who followed the law got totally fucked.

That said, the people who followed the law were taxi services who were using the rarity of their licenses to charge exorbitant prices, so not many people outside the industry cared.

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