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Old Posted Nov 29, 2014, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698 View Post
And it used to be that a train conductor had to have a physical token in order to use a block of track to ensure that no other train could also occupy it. But railways have long since moved beyond that.
This is where it gets fishy. Sure, I can understand a desire for the city to control who drives a taxi on the basis of skill and background requirements. But why limit the numbers so drastically that one of these things is worth a million bucks? Artificially limiting the supply so much strongly suggests that there's some shady profiteering going on. And it obviously needs the collusion of the regulators. No wonder people are fed up with the system.
A simple "You kiss my ass and I'll kiss your ass" system.
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