Fair Is Good, but Should a City Decide Which Startups Are OK?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 19th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Fair Is Good, but Should a City Decide Which Startups Are OK?
Debra Saunders, RealClearPolitics
I’ve never used Airbnb. I’m not proud of my failure to dive into the sharing economy. I know it’s largely a function of middle age — I don’t want to sleep in a stranger’s spare bedroom, even if it’s cheap — and of years of parlaying hotel rewards programs to my advantage. My first reaction when I heard about ride service startups Uber and Lyft was that they enjoy an unfair advantage over cabbies, who have to jump through hoops and pay huge fees to do what “sharing” kids do on the fly. I mention the above to establish that I understand cities’ impulse to use their clout to instill in startup…
