<i>It&#x27;s stating that the playing field is unfair and that becoming a taxi driver isn&#x27;t a career path anymore.</i><p>Of course it&#x27;s unfair. You have an artificially constrained supply.<p><i>I perceive it to be as a means for workers to make certain they have fair working conditions and fair pay for their work as a base.</i><p>In the same way, a business cartel is a means for firms to coordinate operations in a manner to mutually benefit in terms of profitability by vertically integrating stages of production or through more brute price gouging arrangements.<p>Of course, they have a high incentive to break down as a result of disobeying to exploit new opportunities from the leveling that has been done.<p>Unions serve the same function, but on the demand side (more specifically wage laborers). You can&#x27;t support one without also allowing for the other.