Salon calls Uber ‘the embodiment of unrestrained hyper-capitalism’

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Exactly what has Salon does this time, and we sure it’s perhaps not the Salon parody account? It’s published a piece entitled, “Why Uber must certanly be ended,” noting that app-driven trip sharing service “is showing is the embodiment of unrestrained hyper-capitalism.”

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Almost. Just what copywriter Andrew Leonard is trying to express is it, whatever what this means is:

Whichever side you fall on, the storyline is interesting. There’s small doubt that Uber is the closest thing we’ve got right now to the living, breathing essence of unrestrained capitalism. This might be like watching Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller doing his thing. This is how robber barons play. All the way through, the business flaunts a street-fighter ethos.

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The true concern we should be asking ourselves is it: What happens when a business aided by the DNA of Uber ultimately ends up winning everything? What happens whenever neighborhood taxi organizations tend to be destroyed and Lyft is broken? When Uber has dominant marketplace place in almost every significant city on world? “UberEverywhere” isn’t bull crap. It’s a mantra, a call to hands, a holy ideology.

So, in a nutshell, Uber’s doing pretty much?

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Why Uber must be stopped. Leftists upset that capitalism & competition aren't quite #tcot #tlot

salon.com/2014/08/31/why…— Founding Ideals (@founding_ideals) August 31, 2014

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For a far more step-by-step takedown of Salon’s piece, be sure to have a look at Steven Hayward’s post at Powerline, “Uber Meets Liberalism Uber Alles,” filled with historical framework:

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These greedy Wright brothers are threatening to upend city-to-city train solution along with their dangerous flying contraptions . . . Wait, what? You mean the railroads were the initial Robber Barons? Oh, never ever brain. . .

 

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