But what do you mean they are taking jobs from livery cars?

I don't understand. It's very different in NYC, where all the Uber drivers have proper professional licenses and license plates and are bonafide livery drivers, from other cities where what are essentially random people with cars are now competing with professional drivers.

I have many reasons to be very critical of Uber but this doesn't seem one of them. They are taking business away from car service companies, many of which were little neighborhood storefronts around the city, but I don't see how they are taking jobs from livery cars really, as they are not.