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The author is calling for deregulation just to build more wealth extraction machines for the already-wealthy.

In re: the first part about building, check out the history of the Embarcadero freeway, the one that isn't there anymore. There are good reasons why things have slowed down, why we consider longer and deeper before we build.

In re: "Too many seats at the table" you'll notice that it's the other fellow's seat that the author wants to take away, not their own. "There is always a loser to any change" indeed. That's why we want multi-stakeholder decision making: to make global optimizations.

People don't hate Uber because they made it easier for [some] people to get around. People hate Uber because they destroyed traffic etiquette and because they rip off their employees to enrich their investors: https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-market-fairy-will-not-solve-the...



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