• cm0002@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Fuck yea, fuck Taxis

    An entire industry that’s playing the victim. People around here are romanticizing taxis, but the shit they pulled was just as bad, if not worse than what Uber does.

    Biggest difference is their drivers were complicit in the shenanigans and primarily targeted their customers. Taking LONG routes because their customer “wasn’t local”, saying a route will “probably be 10$” and then it’s 50 and “the meter says what it says man”.

    They literally used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time, 0 innovations, dirty ancient barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours

    The taxi industry doesn’t give a fuck about you, they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying.

    Fuck Uber AND Taxis, they both can rot in hell, but I don’t mind seeing taxis get there first.