Once more, how many plates do city councillours and ex-mayors own? How many are owned by big law firms? How many are owned by those influencing the laws? Why is there a black market for taxi plates? Why are the number of plates regulated? Why is the city trying to control supply and demand? What do they know about economics? Is this the city’s role? All questions that are wiped out and solved by Uber, solving an impossible quagmire that taxi medallion owners and their governing benefactors conspired to crea