Sharing Economy

“Millennials Are Screwed”

“For decades, most of the job growth in America has been in low-wage, low-skilled, temporary and short-term jobs. The United States simply produces fewer and fewer of the kinds of jobs our parents had. This explains why the rates of “under-employment” among high school and college…

“Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Cake, and Eat It Too”

“It was that simple: Some people like to make things, other people like to buy things that others have made, and now, thanks to the internet, these people could be brought seamlessly together, to the benefit of all parties, including the host…

“Taxi Drivers vs. Uber”

“Satwinder Singh, another Sikh, provided an analogy: “The city is the father and mother. They created the yellow cab as the baby. Now they’re refusing to take care of it!”
 
 Lal Singh continued the analogy, bringing up the fifty-cent tax on cab fares, which goes to the M.T.A. “We’re…

“Uber Drivers in California Are Employees, Labor Commission Rules”

““The defendants hold themselves out as nothing more than a neutral technological platform, designed simply to enable drivers and passengers to transact the business of transportation,” the commission wrote in its…

“The Case Against Sharing”

“Across the U.S., high costs of living are driving more of the employed toward “side hustles,” i.e. unprotected freelance work, the kind fostered by the sharing economy… The sharing economy’s success is inextricably tied to the economic recession, making new American poverty…