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The sharing economy is evil. The only making money are the big corporations, the little guy is slaving for bellow minimum wage and taking all the risk on top of

• jsemrau 9y ago
  Well good and evil is a pretty binary description. You will only have a market if seller (the driver) and buyer (the service operator) are meeting. If the driver do not want to operate under those conditions there is no "invisible hand" forcing them to do so. Of course in lack of alternatives it is a small but easily accessible form of immediate income.
  • SirLJ 9y ago
    The alternative is to get educated and get thinking about starting a real business instead of this part time addictive pitty of income... it's like saying to the addict it is his fault he is spending all his money on drugs...
    • vinaybn 9y ago
      Is the addict not even partly at fault for spending all his money on drugs??!
      • eecc 9y ago
        Let's not get started with the moralistic stance will we? Poverty is most often due to - especially in societies with precious little social safety nets - accidents of life, hereditarity. Very few fall deservedly, most are thrown or kept down
    • jsemrau 9y ago
      Not everyone has the skills, patience, savings to get required education. There is a reason why McJobs exist. This is not an addition but rather the need for immediate cashflow due to economic situations.
• didibus 9y ago
  As I see it, there used to be little guys and even littler guys. Now the income of the little guy is shared among all little and littler, resulting in an averaging. It's hard to judge which is worse. If we're lucky, this will actually bubble up, and we can better share the medium and the big guys work also.
• icebraining 9y ago
  That's very dependent on the specific service and on the person's situation. AirBNB, for example, can provide a very decent income for the work needed, much better than any alternative use of the property and time.