People renting out entire houses as investments on Airbnb are just a
   reflection of the fact that the hotel business is a racket. Don't blame
   Airbnb; they're just the messenger. Likewise Uber and taxis. Both
   organizations take power away from the rent-seekers and by proxy the
   government. Yes they are still centralized and self-interested, but the
   real bad guys here are the corrupt city and state governments that are
   in bed with the hoteliers and taxi companies. Get rid of the special
   privileges (regulatory barriers etc) and Uber and Airbnb's profit
   margins would be much lower.

   On Sat, Dec 12, 2015, 10:54 Tomas Overdrive Petru <[1]tpetru@gmail.com>
   wrote:

     On 09.12.15 23:14, Rayzer wrote:
     > The problem with the "Sharing Economy" is that it only shares with
     other
     > people involved in that 'economy' and excludes others. That's
     feudal,
     > and Feudalist sharing is NOT sharing for the benefit of a whole
     > community. It's sharing for the benefit of a few.
     Something feels here like sand in cogwheel... so what? So we have
     invented we can share our resources, which is positive from social
     side
     same as from ecological.
     Now we should decide if to kill whole idea for everybody, or just
     create
     new market, where you can fight to win?
     Where is bonus of NOT to allow sharing of cars as business?
     I have been in some countries where no such thing as public
     transport
     does really exists and this model is there on voluntary and
     kapitalistic
     basic for years and why not.
     In our country to get cab, like one from that approved companies is
     usually ... stupid. They will rob you, they will dictate their
     rules,
     what you can and what you can't. It is closed market without any
     progress for years.
     I do expect argument, that legal taxi at least pay taxes and some
     social
     security and all that. You can be sure, they know town or city and
     they
     know how to drive.
     Hmm. OK, one correct thing is, that they are doing special driving
     license to be allowed to drive cab. That is all.
     Price is 40% higher than Uber, service is usually much worse and
     even
     Prague as city is not able to get a rid of this taxi mafia. Czech
     people
     do not need taxi, because we can easily get a bus, tram, trolleybus,
     train ... wherever we want, so they are just robbing tourists. Uber
     and
     simillar services can just easily kill this sh*t by just creating
     free
     market possibility.
     Regards,
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