Thursday, July 16, 2015

Share or not

Arguments for and against the sharing economy have gotten national attention since one politician made a major move against it.

I'd like to see sharing companies go on enabling ordinary people. Isn't diversity a good thing? People like options - customers have more choices in transportation, drivers have more choices for making money, travelers have more choices in where to stay at their destination.

We know a hard-working carpenter who sometimes uses his weekends to drive for Uber. It smooths out the cash flow when his free-lance carpentry business has a down month. For him, this is a simple solution.

It's a model that really works, and it works the most for the below-median income user. Let the simple idea keep working.

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