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Re:The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The St... by adventured on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @02:56AM (#6171269)
I agree. The so called sharing economy is the market attempting to route around a hyper regulated and incumbent protected economy. Just take a look at the industries listed:

Automobiles (hyper regulated). Car dealerships (hyper regulated). Telecom (hyper regulated). Car rentals (incumbent protected; try competing with Enterprise and setting up shop in 400 airports). Taxis (hyper regulated and incumbent protected). Textbooks (protected cartel; shielded both by the establishment and politics of education). Lending and fundraising (nothing is more regulated than finance and banking). Restaurants (in every major city you'll have to bribe government officials to stay open or to set-up). Major event and city parking (try not to get whacked by the mafia while you're setting up competition, and then pray you can bribe your way into approvals to get started while the incumbents try to keep you out with denied permits). Condos / apartments / etc. (that's an easy one, it's a nightmare being a landlord in places like NYC due to the burden of government regulations and committees that can dictate every nuance for housing).

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