How many times have we heard these words, "life isn't fair"? The reason that we hear that so often is the fact that often our perceptions indicate to us, whether legitimately or not, that life is not fair, that there appears to be rules unfairly applied and/or unequally enforced. Take, for instance, the taxi wars, in which consumers can now utilize services from companies such as Uber or Lyft, to go from point A to point B, and so forth. While this certainly feels like a win for consumers, this would imply strongly that there are losers in this game too.
The biggest loser in the Uber war is the entire taxi cab industry, from the managers, to investors, to State and city coffers, to employees, and to maintenance personnel, in which all of these people and entities are most definitely being impacted in a negative way and seem to be on the wrong side of time. The thing is that is hardly a surprising result because when government allows one entity to play under different rules and regulations than another entity, the side that has the more favorable rules is going to be in the driver's seat. This is, in a nutshell the exact situation in which taxi cab companies are regulated by city, State, and county officials, and have specific rules in regards to disabled-accessible vehicles, workers' compensation, work hours, unionization, limitation of medallions and car fleets, and so on.
Another big loser in the Uber wars is the drivers of the vehicles themselves, to which, they are deceived into believing that being a Uber driver is somehow going to allow them to make good money, while being treated as independent contractors, responsible for their vehicle upkeep, gasoline, insurance, maintenance, and with no guarantees of a sustainable income as market forces primarily determine the compensation for Uber drivers at any given time. The fact of the matter is, while there isn't anything wrong with being or desiring to be an Uber driver, realistically, this means that what you are desiring to be is a taxi driver in all but name, and thereby making the type of income, that a taxi driver would make on an hourly basis but without any employee benefits because you are not an employee of Uber.
Most people can find some justification for whatever actions that they take, to which I suppose, that when it comes to utilizing Uber, people talk up the convenience, the seamless usage of an app on their phone, the payment structure, the front seat, the experience, the quality of the vehicle, respect for the business disrupter, capitalism, and so forth, when in actuality, it mainly comes down to the point that Uber is cheaper and will save them money. Uber, itself, would not exist without the massive amount of money behind them from venture capitalists, who rather than being seen as some sort of hero for opening up alternatives to taxi's; should be seen for what they really are, conducting business which relies on its success by playing under rules that favor them at the expense of the taxi industry, while also successfully exploiting their independent contractors, to do all the labor for them, while they make the easy money by taking a nice piece of every transaction.