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Re:The sharing economy was always a scam by trimbo on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:01AM (#19335228)
> That's what sharing is about, more optimal allocation/usage. It's not an end-all solution to everything, it's a supplement.

Do you think that drives down the wages of the people who need to do it as their main source of income?

Re:The sharing economy was always a scam by ACow_Adonis on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:50AM (#19335427)
Well, that's what basic economic theory would predict, so I'd argue you'd need to have a pretty robust and demonstrated reason to conclude that it wouldn't. You've first got the general increasing in the supply of labour, but then you've got a secondary effect considering the lowering of barriers to people who consider car ownership a sunk cost and not connected directly and solely to using the vehicle for income-production introducing a very low marginal rate for some of that supply...