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But the truth is that Uber doesn't have anything that isn't easily replicatable by entrenched taxi companies that are willing.

Network effects: it's difficult to dislodge an entrenched competitor once they've accumulated a large enough dependent userbase.

Not all countries have a corrupt, entrenched monopoly nor do all countries have the same antagonism towards taxi services.

Banks, like other entrenched interests, will be for or against regulations, depending on if they advance their interests or not.

And the billions+ of entrenched synapses that compose the sum total of your life to date.

Fighting entrenched bankers is one of the hardest uphill battles one can get into.

It is entrenched top to bottom -- lowest traffic cop to highest government offices.

We still discriminate hard but it's so entrenched that it seems obviously right.

Especially since the longer they waited the more entrenched users of Windows 7 & 8 would become, just like they did with XP.

It's trying to be a C++ killer, so it has a shot at a very entrenched part of the current game development ecosystem.

Taxi systems were notoriously bad before regulation, so it's not true to say that Uber is illegal only because of a deeply entrenched monopoly.

It was originally developed for that purpose, and it's deeply entrenched.

If Uber were to go public today, they'd immediately switch from "startup cutting legal corners" to "entrenched corporation doing illegal-ish things".

Don't get me wrong, I love seeing folks try to compete against entrenched businesses, but there isn't really any sort of major proprietary "moat" here.

Thus, we end up with the entrenched (but increasingly wrong) idea that people have to be intimidated into working, or they'll shirk: "Theory X", in management parlance.