On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:50:43 -0400 grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/30/16, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
In some ways uber is even more hostile to a free market than the 'official' state-licenced(like uber) taxi mafia.
Being "better" at something is easy when the incumbent player and their strategies are suboptimum.
Not only that. Uber is better at centralization and corporatism - hardly a virtue.
The current players are angling for lockout, not freedom.
Well, of course. I never meant that the current state-licensed mafias are free-market heroes.
The day you can roll up in your highly peer reviewed brokeass smoked out flower power Vanagon and blaze your way to the park from the airport with five execs in the back, based on a call from an anonymous overlay network decentral p2p rideshare app complete with aforesaid user reviews... that's freedom... start coding.
I haven't looked at the current 'state of the art' in decentralized markets lately, but some stuff has already been coded, no? Problem is, it's not just a matter of coding... Also, anonimity and reputation-based systems don't mix well..