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In Denmark Uber was told they can't operate, you need a license to drive a taxi so the amount of taxis match with the amount of people - if there are to many taxis everyone can't make a living wage.
Uber could register as a normal taxi company, but they were not interested in that.
Funny thing for the short period they were operating most the drivers didn't register to pay taxes of the income, but tax department just asked Uber for a list of drivers and their income.
Why aren't there similar restrictions to the amount of workers in various sectors? Doesn't having too many people doing IT support dilute IT support worker wages? Apply this logic to ANY individual contributor role.
The actual end result of limited taxi licenses is that the licenses get monopolized by bigger businesses who do not provide "living" wages to their employees rather than protecting individual taxi drivers. The owner makes a TON of money and the taxi drivers just do ok.
Try and find some salary data for say NYC medallion taxi drivers and compare that to the surrounding area cost of living. Taxi drivers who work 40 hours usually make below what i'd consider living wage for the area.