<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>I would absolutely prefer a cab to Uber now. The pricing was better, the service was better, we weren&amp;#x27;t expected to mutually review each other, and I could flag one down on the street. If I walked to a taxi stand, it was instant satisfaction.&lt;p&gt;The only things that improved with Uber were price and coverage, and they tried to fool us into seeing other improvements that didn&amp;#x27;t exist, largely by painting cab drivers as scary, stinky, subhuman swindlers and implying people that drove Uber were all part timers who usually worked at &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; jobs. Now the prices are sky high and the things take as long or longer as cabs did to show up.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there&amp;#x27;s room for an Uber in tiny places that don&amp;#x27;t need cab companies or even full time cabbies, but everywhere else, they&amp;#x27;ve just added another layer of rentseeking over a familiar experience. We could have gotten rid of the medallion system without replacing it with this thing. Let&amp;#x27;s make gigwork illegal so Uber will have to contract with local companies, or reduce themselves to people they&amp;#x27;re willing to employ.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very happy that Uber broke the law that protected the cab cartel.  Now I can conveniently get a ride wherever I want and never have to deal with a sleazy incompetent cab company ever again.  When I travel to other countries I never have to deal with their shitty taxi scams.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; It invariably ends badly in the long run&lt;p&gt;Not invariably, sadly. Uber, for example, didn&amp;#x27;t seem to be overly hurt by their lawbreaking.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The law is not for tech bros, they just see it as a signpost that you can pretend not to have read or be aware of. It invariably ends badly in the long run and in the short term everybody else suffers. Highly annoying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/worldcoin-in-kenya/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;the ends justify the means&amp;quot; arguments are terribly persuasive, personally. And any company or person who is willing to break the law to succeed is not trustworthy enough to be comfortable doing business with.&lt;p&gt;They may be good now, but the instant that they see a method of increasing their profit by screwing someone, including customers, over then that&amp;#x27;s what they&amp;#x27;ll do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very happy that Uber broke the law that protected the cab cartel.  Now I can conveniently get a ride wherever I want and never have to deal with a sleazy incompetent cab company ever again.  When I travel to other countries I never have to deal with their shitty taxi scams.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; It invariably ends badly in the long run&lt;p&gt;Not invariably, sadly. Uber, for example, didn&amp;#x27;t seem to be overly hurt by their lawbreaking.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The law is not for tech bros, they just see it as a signpost that you can pretend not to have read or be aware of. It invariably ends badly in the long run and in the short term everybody else suffers. Highly annoying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/worldcoin-in-kenya/</url></story>