Anyone who works with demographics in a serious manner is aware that a 99% split is extraordinarily difficult to achieve.
You're actually saying that the regulations on Uber hurt 99% of the people of France. Children? The mentally ill? Prisoners? Soldiers stationed overseas? Farmers? People too poor to afford taxis in the first place?
Hell, people outside the Uber areas of service, which is apparently just Paris?
Each of these demographic segments pretty much wholly have no interest in something like Uber, and slice off percentage point after percentage point. And even when you take your twenty/thirty/fortysomething urban parisian with the money for car hire, plenty have life patterns that don't need a taxi or uber - they walk or cycle or bus or train it about.
'99%' is utter, utter tosh, both in the literal, and more importantly, in the contextual figurative sense it was given.
You're actually saying that the regulations on Uber hurt 99% of the people of France. Children? The mentally ill? Prisoners? Soldiers stationed overseas? Farmers? People too poor to afford taxis in the first place?
Hell, people outside the Uber areas of service, which is apparently just Paris?
Each of these demographic segments pretty much wholly have no interest in something like Uber, and slice off percentage point after percentage point. And even when you take your twenty/thirty/fortysomething urban parisian with the money for car hire, plenty have life patterns that don't need a taxi or uber - they walk or cycle or bus or train it about.
'99%' is utter, utter tosh, both in the literal, and more importantly, in the contextual figurative sense it was given.