You don't want to be a Uber driver in Mexico
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Of course I know that businesses create\provide jobs and governments are good only at giving false populistic promises before elections - and collecting taxes. But laws are issued by governments, unfortunately, and most of these laws are written in a way to give huge corps more money and allow them avoiding taxes, while squeezing the last penny off middle class and small businesses.
I used the word "populists" about future governments because nearly all governments I see today are populists. They are bad at creating jobs today and I am afraid it will get only worse in the future.
That is why companies like Uber and AirBNB are so important - they change the world we live in. And sometimes such companies face resistance.
You're still confused over what a Government actually does.
Governments don't create jobs, even when they pass laws, they do not create jobs. Of course they scream from the roof tops that's what they are doing (Obama being a prime example of this), but it's bullshit and even they know it.
Governments love the "broken window fallacy" because it makes them look like they are doing something when they are actually doing nothing at all.
A job is only a job when it fulfills a task that needs to be completed, otherwise it's just busy work and a waste of money.
As a sidenote.
Let's think of a situation where Chinese government (for example) issued a decree to build 1500 new cities and hundreds of thousands of new kilometers of roads\railroads and hundreds of airports in Western China, as a part of their new economic paradigm. They are aimed at turning mostly-poorly developed regions into the second heart of the empire (there are huge resource deposits that are not fully used nowadays, due to the lack of infrastructure/ workforce/ living space). This is combined with huge task of replacing their power-generating facilities to allow China to be the motor of economy once more after current crisis ends..
Will this create jobs? Definitely. Can any business do this without government approval? Definitely not. Is it a task that has to be completed? Of course. Will it do any good or will it be a waste of money, like Ordos and other ghost cities? Hard to say at the moment.
However, as Chinese stock market continues to fall, all of this becomes less and less realistic.
Governments are managers with different degree of efficacy. With Uber, for example - they could find a solution and they should do it, because once Uber entered the stage the market (taxi companies) and regulatory bodies (government) has to adapt. And they failed at it, as throwing rocks is more simple.
A job doesn't automatically have virtue because it's a job, some jobs shouldn't exist and only do so by government force.
Holding a gun to someones head and telling them they need permission to do something doesn't legitimize anything, least of all the person with the gun.
The intelligence of these taxi drivers knows no boundaries...
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In india Uber driver are making a killing, normal salary of a driver in india is $200-250 a month. Uber drivers are making $ 1000-1500 easily.
Its changed the scenario of how people used to look at driving as a job in the country and uber recently announced that they will invest another billion dollars to promote uber in India.
Its changed the scenario of how people used to look at driving as a job in the country and uber recently announced that they will invest another billion dollars to promote uber in India.
Yeah - people who aren't stubborn as fuck to change will do that. I bet the indian cabbies literally said fuck you to the boss - drove away in the little 3-wheel car and installed the Uber app at the nearest cheap Wifi spot. Because throwing rocks through windows of cars civilians are riding in to show display of anger towards Uber drivers will not make them richer. And might make them a lot poorer if they accidentally fuck up the passenger.
Usually depends on the country. Uber drivers I've known were not same as you've mentioned above. Sad that it has to happen.