Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

I know this opinion is not popular but I'm so happy everytime I see bad news for Uber and all these companies that only exist thanks to basically exploiting THEIR workers.

Private transporting is not sustainable and it is not something that has to be affordable for everyone, even less by lowering workers wages or playing with the tariffs by demand. Taxi regulations gives us passengers safety and fair prices. There are taxi apps that work exactly like Uber's like 'Free-now' where you can see your trip, its aproximate cost, the driver's rating...

We have to promote governments that support affordable and good quality public transport, even though I love driving alone in my car.

I hope Deliveroo, Glovo and other companies are also punished for their labour rights abuses. Make sure your delivery guy is payed fairly or either go to the restaurant yourself.

So many years of labour rights fights being attacked by these startups that do not invent anything but base their business model on lower wages.

Yes, super exploiting their drivers is a necessity for their success. But there are others. Governments have been intentionally crippling public transportation for the past 40 years or so in many western countries. And they have been shifting resources to private transportation. Liberalizing labor law - or more precisely: transferring authority over labor law to unaccountable private tyrannies - is another. And the UK was pretty much leading this assault. Even now the German government is working aggressively towards scrapping the Passenger Transportation Act which they are refusing to enforce consistently anyway and which at least in theory puts a cap on the life span of this horrible business model.

Uber at the end of a day is just a private enterprise operating (mostly) consistent with the law and with it's function as a private enterprise which is to make money for its shareholders. Blaming them for this is akin to blaming the puppy eating monster for eating the puppies we give them. Who the f- thought that would be a good idea to begin with?