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It's not a logical extension because most of these "sharing economy" companies are a) subverting the rules and sovereignty of the communities in which they operate, b) introducing parasitic drag in the deployment of capital in those places, and c) creating a disconnect between local owners and local consumers--in effect, you do business with Uber, not Francine the cabby.

Orthogonal to all that, of course, is the generally scummy practice of reducing these folks to serfdom.



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