# It’s a mistake to call Uber a tech company.

When Wal-Mart cleverly circumvents labor laws in order to deny rights to its
employees, nobody claims that it’s justified by the technical…

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It’s a mistake to call Uber a tech company. Uber is a taxi service that uses
legal loopholes to avoid having to give its employees the various benefits
legally granted to employees. As a result, democrats and leftists in general
are against it, because the core of its business model is circumventing labor
laws.

When Wal-Mart cleverly circumvents labor laws in order to deny rights to its
employees, nobody claims that it’s justified by the technical leaps that Wal-
Mart makes, but why? Wal-Mart has developed more new tech than Uber has. The
answer is PR — Uber has decided to call itself a tech company, and thus, it
has recieved the protection of tech company boosters.

When a genuinely innovative idea is put forth, there is no problem with
regulation because regulation in that area doesn’t exist — the area doesn’t
exist, so it’s a non-issue. Drones don’t meet this criteron — drones are an
old technology, with early versions existing as far back as the 1940s, and
they operate in a regulatory space that is largely well-developed. Uber
doesn’t meet this critereon, because as we mentioned, it’s a taxi service.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [May 29,
2015](https://medium.com/p/19e9f39963fa).

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