Isn't it ironic that millennials who love Bernie Sanders also love Uber?

sartre(orial) wrote:

Bernie would love to regulate Uber out of existence, yet his biggest supporters and urban millennials--Uber's largest user base. Do millennials actually love free-markets and not even realize it?

Do conservatives actually like Donald Trump's lies and not even realize it?

sartre(orial) wrote:

Bernie would love to regulate Uber out of existence, yet his biggest supporters and urban millennials--Uber's largest user base. Do millennials actually love free-markets and not even realize it?

Uber is popular with millennials because of the convenience factor, not the pricing.

Uber is great, cheap public transport is also great. Bernie would not like to "regulate uber out of existence" and you're just enjoying making stupid anti liberal jokes to your conservative echo chamber.

Even Bernie uses it!

Sanders will make everything more expensive and more difficult to obtain. Uber is just one example.

SandersSupporter wrote:

Uber is great, cheap public transport is also great. Bernie would not like to "regulate uber out of existence" and you're just enjoying making stupid anti liberal jokes to your conservative echo chamber.

Bernie said he has "serious problems" with Uber and called it "unregulated."

Blah Blah Blah Blah wrote:

Sanders will make everything more expensive and more difficult to obtain. Uber is just one example.

Yeah, regulation ruins everything. People who qualify for medicare have a really difficult time obtaining cheap insurance. Kids who attend public schools for K-12 really struggle to obtain/afford their education. The majority of 16+ year-olds can barely obtain or afford a drivers license.

Oh, wait a minute...

I only use uber when going out to drink

Ritz Fan wrote:

Blah Blah Blah Blah wrote:

Sanders will make everything more expensive and more difficult to obtain. Uber is just one example.

Yeah, regulation ruins everything. People who qualify for medicare have a really difficult time obtaining cheap insurance. Kids who attend public schools for K-12 really struggle to obtain/afford their education. The majority of 16+ year-olds can barely obtain or afford a drivers license.

Oh, wait a minute...

This is where Sanders supporters become confused. Government regulations do make everything cost more and reduce choice. Sanders supporters sadly believe that what they personally pay is the total cost of a government program and there couldn't possibly exist any alternatives to government mandated programs.

Ritz Fan wrote:

sartre(orial) wrote:

Bernie would love to regulate Uber out of existence, yet his biggest supporters and urban millennials--Uber's largest user base. Do millennials actually love free-markets and not even realize it?

Uber is popular with millennials because of the convenience factor, not the pricing.

Then how come Millennials prefer Uber to Taxis, which are often faster and more convenient, but cost more due to regulation?

uber liberals wrote:

Ritz Fan wrote:

Uber is popular with millennials because of the convenience factor, not the pricing.

Then how come Millennials prefer Uber to Taxis, which are often faster and more convenient, but cost more due to regulation?

Where in the hell are taxis faster and especially more convenient?

Ritz Fan wrote:

Yeah, regulation ruins everything. People who qualify for medicare have a really difficult time obtaining cheap insurance. Kids who attend public schools for K-12 really struggle to obtain/afford their education. The majority of 16+ year-olds can barely obtain or afford a drivers license.

Uber only exists in the first place because they found a way to get around the inane regulations and fees that apply to taxi services, proving they were restricting supply. As usual, it's all a power trip by the control freak liberals offering intrusive solutions to problems that don't exist.

lololololol wrote:

Where in the hell are taxis faster and especially more convenient?

The hell known as airports, where taxis get special privileges.

sartre(orial) wrote:

SandersSupporter wrote:

Uber is great, cheap public transport is also great. Bernie would not like to "regulate uber out of existence" and you're just enjoying making stupid anti liberal jokes to your conservative echo chamber.

Bernie said he has "serious problems" with Uber and called it "unregulated."

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-06/bernie-sanders-takes-on-clinton-welfare-legacy-as-he-woos-iowa-unions

Stop dude. You're ruining my buzz.

There are three ways to deal with a top-heavy luxury economy in recession, where consumer demand doesn't go far beyond essentials.

Socialists take money from the top and give it to everyone else so they have more disposable income.

Liberals pass laws subsidizing demand in an attempt to force people to spend money. Basically they try to turn luxuries into essentials.

Conservatives do nothing and whine about not being able to make money because they already have it all.

My pet peeve subsidized-demand law in the US is needing a prescription every 1 or 2 years to buy eyewear. Guess where they don't do this, that's right, those supposed nanny-states in Canada and UK. They don't need to create thousands of redundant jobs in optometry.

The socialism being proposed here abolishes or provides an alternative to private markets only in certain sectors of the economy, namely, health insurance, and ...? His proposal in higher education, for instance, is only to make public universities and colleges free, not to abolish or socialize private ones. Cities all over the world are fighting Uber for a variety of reasons, including the terrible conditions many of them face and the fact that they are not properly insured or checked.

That's the problem. Instead of providing an alternative to private hired transport, government saddles the consumer with mandates forcing them to use it. If they didn't get special privileges at airports and such, nobody would use taxis unless they absolutely had to. They're a luxury.

Government also spends a lot of money giving free cab rides to people on public assistance.

If Ãœber driving is a shitty job, that only demonstrates that it's not an essential service in a bad economy. Not surprising when only rich people have disposable income. Socialists want to fix this by redistributing income. Liberals give all their love to the blue-collar bourgeoisie, regulation-supported unionists established in lucrative trades. They pretend to think union wealth will somehow trickle down to struggling non-union workers.

Bad Wigins wrote:

(Liberals) pretend to think union wealth will somehow trickle down to struggling non-union workers.

Hahaha!!! 10/10. Please do not get Conservatives and Liberals confused. Trickle down? Give me a break, Ronald. Liberals like to think that proper regulation would lead to a minimal number of "struggling non-Union workers" and that programs would be available to assist those that are struggling for legitimate reasons.

Conservatives rightly point out that many people using assistance do so for illegitimate reasons and they hate the thought of using tax money to support laziness. All the while, they see no problem with our current national defense budget, so how concerned with taxes can they be??

Both sides suck. Liberals suck less.