Isn't this exactly what is working for Uber and AirBnB? As far as I can tell, what they are doing is mildly illegal in most of their major markets, but once suf

Isn't this exactly what is working for Uber and AirBnB? As far as I can tell, what they are doing is mildly illegal in most of their major markets, but once sufficient economic benefit and traction was demonstrated, it made it very hard for officials to ignore it. It seems a terrible precedent to set that the disobedience be driven by a corporation that provides a service, rather than consumers, but it also seems that a corporation's legal pockets are much deeper and the disobedience can be enacted on a much larger, safer scale. i.e. if I disobey the law, I can go to prison. If Uber disobeys the law, and has a million customers, Uber just stalls in court and lobbies, and nobody goes to prison, nobody gets a criminal record, and nobody gets hurt. Its a fun subversion of the legal protection that corporations afford the individuals that work for them.