On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:50:43 -0400 grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/30/16, juan <[email protected]> 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..
