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@sun@shitposter.world @lucy@netzsphaere.xyz Yeah, but giving much more licenses than what the market can support only causes problems to everybody: if taxis start to compete fiercely among themselves because there are too many, they're going to drop the prices below the cost price (earning too little or even losing money). That only serves to ruin taxi owners-to-be, when they realize that they've entered into something that's not a business, but a trap.

Actually, something similar to that (oversized taxi pool) happened in my city and the solution they adopted was to divide the pool into "7 colors" (one sticker of a color on every taxi), and one day per week, the taxis with that color can't work (it's forbidden). That way they create a little bit of artificial scarcity and ensure that all the taxis in service a given day get their fair piece of the cake, plus they have a rest day every week (otherwise they would be too greedy and work everyday, and that's not healthy).

Something similar happens here with cafeterias: people got used to such low prices that the owners have to stretch to make ends meet. Who pays for that? The cafeteria employees. They usually work more hours than what's on their contract ("it's a secret that everybody knows") and earn low salaries. That's not good. Letting the taxi business become that, wouldn't be a good idea, IMHO.