>>"uber is literally outlawed in half of europe."
Uber is banned or partially banned in UK, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, and Italy. Eight countries out of forty-four of the European countries.
Either way, outside of madrid, you will have a hard time to find an uber in Spain, which is a complicated country.
Let us do the math.
EU has 450 million people, Europe has 740, give or take.
Deduct the Russian market from that, they are out over there.
It was banned then unbanned in places, fe Turkey.
In switzerland, the owe 150million in taxes, not clean solution, is it. In other words, it is worth it to them to operate there having to pay that restrospectivelly, I dare you, try to steal 150m from the Swiss and see how that goes.
Your list leaves plenty to be desired, it does not contain Greece and the Netherlands and Finland, and Belgium.
So 740 m minus
RU has 140m population, of which 100 to 110 m live in the european part.
660m left
Minus Germany and Uk, this leaves us with
510 million, by now, we have excluded almost the entire us population and the countries with most purchasing power for sure.
France, italy and lets say half spain is Nother 130m, leaving us with 380m.
This is half of whole Europe and half of the european union and we are not through yet.
Next most populated country would be ukraine, I would say legal or not, their serives are currently disrupted there by ongoing events.
In other words, europes best economies do not wanna hear about uber and there was no popular uprising about it.
They should take the hint and stay away.
Theybare venditor non grata, that is a horrible business result after a decade of operations.
As far as I understand, in the US Uber is a dude with a car and a drivers license, who installs an app on their phone and starts driving people around. In European countries I know Uber is just another way to call a taxi.
Big difference. I'd say it's not too wrong to say that the "dude with a car who installed an app" model is mostly outlawed.
Indeed, in their defense, thet have bowed down to some regulators and are run like a business now in places. After being strong armed and forgetting to pay taxes, but props for that, fair enough and honorable. Just that its subsidised by pirating maneuvers in other places.
Sometimes, Americans and american businesses do not understand the social leaning eu countries, the people have worked hard for generations to keep people like uber(yes , people, we know behind companies are people) at bay and they know why. People want to be able to live off of one full time jons salary, no matter the sacrifice.
They also want to their neigbors to have the same privilege, they dont want their neighbors to rob them.
And if it does not work, then the social system shall serve as a fallback.
Nothing to do with lack of work morals, it is a different mind set.
