that, or - they found a heavily regulated market, ignored all the laws, invented a business model that didn't squarely fall into legal precedent and that the pe

that, or - they found a heavily regulated market, ignored all the laws, invented a business model that didn't squarely fall into legal precedent and that the people in charge of enforcing the law (city officials) aren't very keen to enforce it. We applaud them only because we believe (and probably rightly so) that those regulations are there only to prevent competition for entrenched interests. It's not sharing economy if the majority of the people offering the service do it full-time.