> “The potential for weirdos is too great, and $20 or $30 simply isn’t worth it,” says Julia Schweitzer, a Brooklyn-based startup employee who works remotely.

> “The potential for weirdos is too great, and $20 or $30 simply isn’t worth it,” says Julia Schweitzer, a Brooklyn-based startup employee who works remotely. Hasn't this concern more or less gone away in the wake of AirBnb's overwhelmingly positive testimonials. (I realize there have been some highly-publicized negative outlier events.) The optimist in me hopes that the "sharing economy" will remind us that the vast majority of people are well-meaning and just trying to get by.