The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival • Hacker News Board

Re: The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival

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Post by russh » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 9:06 PM UTC

notacoward wrote: post #63

shittyadmin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, you get more than that, no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis". They looked at it and went "ooh I can use it from my phone with the push of a button and it's cheaper". The whole point of the "sharing economy" is to compete on efficiency, ease of use and price. Ridiculous, anti-competitive laws were in place in these systems, I applaud their death.

> no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis" I can disprove that all by myself, since that's exactly how I reacted when I first heard of Uber.

Same here, I truly don't understand how they got away with it.

Re: The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival

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Post by forapurpose » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 10:44 PM UTC

chrisco255 wrote: post #55

forapurpose wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the seeming disappearance of the anti-war demonstrations once Obama took office. What changed, other than the POTUS? "Other than the POTUS" seems to brazenly ignore the significance. For example, it would be absurd to ask, 'When Trump took office, what changed from Obama other than the POTUS'? When Obama took office, the new POTUS' policies aligned to a significant degree with the anti-war protestors. Obama had opp…

I wish national politics were as simple and predictable as a computer program, but trying to paint an analogy there is quite troublesome, for the simple reason that there are hundreds, if not thousands of issues that government has to tangle with...and it often is the case that one party has a better approach to certain issues while the other party is better suited to deal with a completely different set of issues.

Joseph Stalin was probably better at dealing with some issues than Winston Churchill, but that doesn't make them comparable. It's a false equivalency.

Re: The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival

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Post by oliwarner » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC

shittyadmin wrote: post #33

kevin_b_er wrote: post #10

The "Sharing Economy" was always a lie. It was always about illegal acts rebranded. Illegal rebranded taxis. Illegal rebranded hotels. etc

I mean, you get more than that, no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis". They looked at it and went "ooh I can use it from my phone with the push of a button and it's cheaper". The whole point of the "sharing economy" is to compete on efficiency, ease of use and price. Ridiculous, anti-competitive laws were in place in these systems, I applaud their death.

> The whole point of the "sharing economy" is to

... Rebrand existing services with unregulated, zero-hours contractors, using their own unregulated assets, with a layer of brokering software.

It's marketing wank, for both consumers and workers.