Ecclesiastes 1:9: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Uber, Lyft, and the whole "sharing ec

Ecclesiastes 1:9: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Uber, Lyft, and the whole "sharing economy" is nothing more than another iteration of line balancing. Retails centers do this during the holiday seasons by hiring temp workers and call centers are always doing this. I'll agree normal HR is not well tuned for quickly hiring large amounts of people, so the Uber model of deploying an app, and letting people "hire themselves" is interesting case study in ways to quickly ramp up your operations, but the I think enough has been said about how this is essentially exploitation of workers.