How naive. How many new businesses do you think hire lobbyists to sell their case to government?  How many lobbyists do you think the taxi and limousine unions hired to fight the inevitable victory Uber would bring?  "At the expense of the employees?" What "expense?"  You probably don't get out of the state much, but they opened up another 15,000 cap seats in the lower 48 the other day, and they were sucked up in hours. People are flocking in droves for employment "to get their side hustle on" with this company.