Comment by pembrook

Thinking a law is dumb is not the same thing as “being surprised that there are laws.”

The whole point of the Uber and Airbnb strategy was to force each market to re-evaluate whether long-standing laws (protecting special interests like the taxi lobby) were actually desirable by bringing legal challenges to them in each market after already winning the support of the people.

They were largely successful at this. Most markets democratically voted to change previous laws.

I know for people on the spectrum the idea of rules brings lots of comfort, but you do realize the whole point of a democracy is that rules can be debated and changed?