Comment by user_7832

> From what I've read, this happened naturally in other countries, but in US, the taxi monopoly was so bad, we needed something crazy like Uber

Depends on the city but definitely not the case everywhere in India. Uber and Ola (a local Uber alternative) massively forced taxi/auto (tuktuk) unions to weaken their bargaining position.

There’s still a mafia eg in Goa where they literally threaten Uber drivers, but it’s relatively very different post Uber.