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how we can fix this sharing economy Start by ditching the term “sharing economy” because there is no “sharing”, person A pays and person B provides some servic
by gaius 9y ago
how we can fix this sharing economy
Start by ditching the term “sharing economy” because there is no “sharing”, person A pays and person B provides some service, so it’s just “economy”.
- rpmcmurphy 9y ago^^^ What he said. How about "eBay for car rides"
- roywiggins 9y agoIt's not even eBay, since Uber sets the prices.
- Barrin92 9y agoand tightly controls and rates customers and drivers. Think back to the 2014 downgrading of Uber drivers who worked for competing services.
- testouts 9y agoyea make it dude see if its successful , no one is stopping you
- millzlane 9y agoIn Baltimore we already do this. In Baltimore it's called hacking. http://afro.com/the-anatomy-of-a-hack/ http://afro.com/the-anatomy-of-a-hack/ It could be half the cost of a uber or lyft depending on where you're going. A $23-$30 ride could be $9-$15 via a hack. Most of these people are retired older dudes or drug addicts looking for money for their fix. I thought of an app to facilitate this based off of a review system of past customers. Take a dollar off of the ride to encourage reviews. Leave a tip option to give the dollar back if the passenger liked the ride. Baltimore could benefit from this. Cheaper transportation that connects people that is.
- caseysoftware 9y ago> ...or drug addicts looking for money for their fix. What a catastrophically bad idea..
- millzlane 9y agoYou underestimate the sense of poor people who just need a quick ride up the street or are desperate to get to a job that's on the verge of firing them for their lateness because the public transportation has failed them time and time again.
- sharpercoder 9y agoNot all drug addicts commit crimes. There is certainly a place in society for people who fill their void(s) by using drugs. You do need to be careful though, not all addicts are crimeless.
- Aloha 9y agoThis is a really important thing - I look at addiction largely as a societal neutral, the societal harm is often more from the legal issues surrounding addiction, than the actual addiction itself. Before the laws changed in the early 20th century, prescribing maintenance doses of opioids for example, was considered normal and accepted practice.
- robbiep 9y agoI challenge you to explore addiction more fully - it is simplistic to assume that all addicts are opioid-linked and that maintenance dosages would remove harm (methadone programs are basically performing this function, so it is not as though this doesn’t happen). Firstly, what is societal neutral? Is it where a person is able to indulge in their vices without affecting others, or causing cost to the community? Because if so, drug addiction (of prescription, or legal drugs - alcohol and tobacco - and illegal drugs) fails the test. Speaking as someone working on the front lines (emergency departments) of societies care for vulnerable people, addiction is an enormous scourge that causes immense harm - particularly with ice which is highly destructive to the individual, their families and the social fabrics of communities.