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> The reality is that in most municipalities you cannot simply cook food in your kitchen and sell it. Lots of stuff sold at food co-ops and farmers' markets sk
by clarkm 12y ago
> The reality is that in most municipalities you cannot simply cook food in your kitchen and sell it.
Lots of stuff sold at food co-ops and farmers' markets skirt these rules and no one bats an eye. Yet they're doing pretty much the same thing as Airbnb and Uber -- performing valuable services while entering questionable regulatory territory.
It's weird how baking pies in your own kitchen and selling them is considered a very wholesome activity, yet using your own car to drive people around is somehow objectionable.
- skolor 12y agoIts because the result of buying from a terrible baker is I might get food poisoning. On the other hand, a terrible taxi driver could very easily get me killed. The regulations in place don't do a huge amount to fix either of those problems, but having something in place makes people feel better.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoso... the worst case in both scenarios is that you die. The odds of a negative outcome are similarly negligible both ways. I'm not sure you thought this through.
- aestra 12y ago>no one bats an eye Some people bat an eye. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplicable-war-on-lemonade-stands/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplic...