Part of the reason it's cheaper is because many sharing-economy services don't pay the taxes or follow the regulations the established competition must.
Part of the reason it's cheaper is because regulations have set up stagnant non-competing businesses who have no incentive to innovate or compete.
Flaunting the law and making a large set of people make light of the rule of law is a bad thing, and nobody should celebrate the savings from this.
There are places where sharing-economy companies and regulating local governments have worked together to make them legal and open up competition stimulating innovation. New York and the Bay Area, despite their reputations as innovators, haven't managed to do these things.
>Flaunting the law and making a large set of people make light of the rule of law is a bad thing, and nobody should celebrate the savings from this.
This assumes the law is in some way just in the first place. Many here would for instance argue that marihuana-prohibition laws are unjust, and that ignoring and bringing ridicule to such laws is a good thing. The same applies to laws prohibiting gay marriage, and many others.
Acting morally is a good thing, but what's legal isn't necessarily what's moral.
> Part of the reason it's cheaper is because regulations have set up stagnant non-competing businesses who have no incentive to innovate or compete.
all those reasons are so obvious now, thanks! OTOH, it's interesting that from what I've seen a lot of people are "celebrating" the success of uber and lyft because of the lack of incentive to innovate or compete from the taxi/government side
Part of the reason it's cheaper is because regulations have set up stagnant non-competing businesses who have no incentive to innovate or compete.
Flaunting the law and making a large set of people make light of the rule of law is a bad thing, and nobody should celebrate the savings from this.
There are places where sharing-economy companies and regulating local governments have worked together to make them legal and open up competition stimulating innovation. New York and the Bay Area, despite their reputations as innovators, haven't managed to do these things.