Italy. Because you need a license to be a taxi driver, and a random company cannot hand them out (and the taxi drivers union is powerful and corrupt). And because the government gotta know who is renting a room where, you can't just go wherever you want without anyone knowing, especially foreigners. Whenever you rent a room in Italy, the owner will take a picture of your ID/passport, and send your data to the local government. Also you gotta pay taxes on the rooms you rent.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that I would consider "we don't have Uber because the Taxi industry is corrupt" to be a win

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Well, instead of stealing from the drivers, to give to a corporation, it steals from tourists to give to drivers. I say it's not good but it's still less bad

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only things we Italians we are good at is making many regulations, especially ones for safety lmao

See: building regulations

Rare Italian W

(Okay, maybe we are great at doing some regulations, we lack a lot of stuff that is normal for other countries and a lotta of rights...)

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, we are a bureaucracy machine.

People (especially us) often make fun of how convoluted our bureaucracy is, but this has made us extremely good at paper moving. If any country had a go at being us, they would collapse.