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The unforeseen dangers of Uber and Airbnb

Sharing companies may appear to make everyone a winner. But, as Tom Slee argues, they distort the market and disregard dull but important regulations

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy Tom Slee

OR Books, pp.244, £12, ISBN: 9781682190227

In Silicon Valley, renting out is the new selling —and renting out stuff that belongs to other people can be far more profitable than renting out your own.

Over the past few years, companies like Airbnb and Uber have made a great deal of money by pioneering a business model of connecting consumers, who want to use things — such as apartments and cars with drivers — with other people, who want to provide them.

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