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I agree. If you're doing Uber full-time it's not sharing at all. It's just business.

• zo1 12y ago
  Not even a business. From the sounds of it in the article, it seems that these drivers think that they are employees. They even "bought and rented cars in order to..." do this activity. Well, the examples cited anyways, not all of them. I can totally see why people are giving Uber and Lyft a bad rap now. Because the drivers are treating it like a job. And no wonder that they're now using employee-like terms such as "minimum wage" and "living wage". Not to mention that so many people are probably desperate for an easy (to get and to hold) job like this that they've flooded the market. No wonder that Uber/Lyft is able to command their prices.
• rmc 12y ago
  There are pleanty of people using a property fulltime for AirBnB.
  • dwg 12y ago
    Agree, but there's a difference between renting out an investment property full-time, renting out a spare room, and renting your place while away vacation. The later two are what I define as "sharing economy", while the former is more of a business transaction. AirBnB and Uber facilitate both sharing and business type transactions, but the article seems to mixing these up to me in terms of the problem being expressed.