The final thing governments can afford to do is ignore the boom in peer-to-peer services and their impact on the economyA report released final week by the Grattan Institute on services like Uber and Airbnb finds that such peer-to-peer services can provide large benefits to the economy, but that governments need to ensure that both consumers and providers are protected. Hoping the services will just go absent is not an option governments can afford to assume. Related: The uber-loneliness of the sharing economy driver Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com