No, of course it’s not banning Uber or Airbnb when local authorities set the regulations such that Uber and Airbnb can’t operate.
The idea that an Uber driver is a “rent seeker” is particularly amusing too, given that their competition had previously operated a closed market and, in many locations, with the addition of a speculative market in licences or “plates”.
Bill’s Opinion
Increasingly, the left and right side of politics are using the same words but with altogether different meanings. It is hard, if not impossible, to engage in a civilised discussion with any hope of swaying the other side with logic while this doublespeak and echo chamber environment exists.
Rent seeking, this guy is dense but no one tackles him on it either.
Mason seems to be in a downward spiral in his own version of reality. This article by Ian Martin sums it up well.
https://reaction.life/done-paul-mason/
He could be a good Deadpool pick in the next couple of years, if one is into that morbid kind of competition.
See also Owen Jones.