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    3 days ago

    And wages? They couldn’t pay the drivers as little as Uber by making them contractors.

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      Uber wouldn’t have been able to keep customers if big name, well-established taxi companies had really tried to compete with them. Middle aged adults (like me) would not have been inclined to jump into a stranger’s car no matter how cheap it was, if it was just as easy to get a licensed cab.