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kamaal on Feb 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China

In my native tongue(Urdu) and region(South India), we have a saying that goes like this-

"If you wish to destroy a persons fortunes, advice him to start a transportation business".

mikeash on Feb 19, 2016 [–]

Reminds me of a similar English saying: "How do you make a small fortune in the airline business? Start with a large fortune!" I imagine we can generalize that to transportation in general.

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