It's ridiculous the current business model has been allowed to exist as long as it has, with these platforms taking all the profit while passing off all the risk and liability.
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It's ridiculous the current business model has been allowed to exist as long as it has, with these platforms taking all the profit while passing off all the risk and liability.
As a customer, when you buy something from Amazon then as far as you are concerned your relationship is with Amazon, not with 'cooltechshop99' or whatever the vendor may be.
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Uber: We just facilitate rides between our “independent contractors” and customers. We’re not liable for anything that happens
Amazon: We just facilitate purchases between our “independent retailers” and customers. We’re not liable for anything that happens
AirBnB: We just facilitate rentals between our “independent landlords” and customers. We’re not liable for anything that happens
It’s nice to see the first steps in destroying this completely BS business model. Hopefully this can start a domino effect.
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Never thought about it like this. Damn this approach does not make sense at all
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And airbnb charging insane "service fees" in the process. There is a lawsuit in my country being formed against them for this.
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Yeah. The whole "gig economy" model is based on companies being able to shrug off all the risk. It really needs to die.
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The whole tech ethos seems to be:
- Find something we decided 100 years ago should be illegal, despite being profitable
- Find a way to use digital technologies to repackage it “legally”
- Put the pedal to the metal: make enough money before the public asks for regulation that you can write the regulations yourself
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I believe it's called Regulatory Arbitrage - using the time gap between a new technology appearing that allows new ways of doing something which have yet to be Regulated and Lawmakers getting around to regulating it, to run an unregulated (yet legal) business - and indeed as you pointed out it has been the most common business model of the largest startups since at least the 2010s.
