Not to mention being floated along on great heaping piles of investor cash that allows them to magically escape actual market forces for a longer and longer runway (thanks to the trend of delaying IPOs) in which to outpace the regulated industries they are “disrupting”… all while thumbing their noses at the expectation of paying taxes back into their local economies (looking at you, Airbnb, with your ill-considered SF billboard comms disaster that i will paste in as a naked link because Medium’s friggin’ toolbar icons are broken http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/96278/airbnb-sf-billboard-proposition)