{"id":67847,"date":"2018-08-31T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67847"},"modified":"2018-08-30T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:41:32","slug":"the-racket-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67847","title":{"rendered":"The Racket Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of the blog writes:<\/p>\n

It used to be people would go out for a night of fun and one person would have to be the designated driver. A majority didn’t even think to use cabs and public transit would often not run regularly enough at bar close.<\/p>\n

Now that we have Uber and Lyft, I have heard many, many stories of people using those services when going out. I know some people who no longer drive under the influence because of the affordability of Uber.<\/p>\n

So, of course, when people get real options that are reliable and affordable, those in the government who think their jobs are as social engineers have a problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of interest locally, I found this link through a Tweet that declared Minneapolis\/St Paul should consider this next. Why?<\/p>\n

They can try to limit all they want, but there will still be people in cars and ride sharing will still happen. For example, the other day, I was approached by a man on the street who was trying to start his own ride share business, offering lower rates than Uber by about $2. I also have the number of a taxi driver who moonlights as a personal driver for those of us with his business card. He pretty much places himself on call for us.<\/p>\n

So, yes, there will be options, which makes it even more aggravating that city governments get involved in private business that actually works for the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a system built on rent-seeking, people will seek rent.<\/p>\n

And for the government permission racket to survive, it’s gotta deliver the rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of the blog writes: It used to be people would go out for a night of fun and one person would have to be the designated driver. A majority didn’t even think to use cabs and public transit would often not run regularly enough at bar close. Now that we have Uber and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67848,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847\/revisions\/67848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}