uber election. presidential candidate hillary clinton seemed to be criticizing uber and on demand or gig economy in a recent economic speech saying that while it created exciting opportunities and raised questions about workplace protections. jeb bush responded in a post defending uber entitled disrupting washington to unleash innovators and used the service in san francisco. marco rubio and rand paul criticized clinton for her remarks. the question is why is a car service app, let s keep in mind what this is at the center of an increasingly nasty political battle and what does it say about the future of the american economy and anxieties about it? a debate on that when we return. there s nothing more romantic than a spontaneous moment. so why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you re doing to find a bathroom? with cialis for daily use, you don t have to plan around either. it s the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is
for a technology advocacy group. i want to have you on tonight, dean, because you are an economist but you have written really persuasively about how bad entrenched cartels can be throughout the economy and how much cronyism they can engender. when you watch this battle rage between uber which styles itself as innovative disrupter against the bad incumbent taxi interest, how are you reading this situation? i think it s a very interesting story. the incumbent taxi industry isn t anything that anyone really wants to preserve. we have archaic rules. the regulations were there to ensure profits on an industry that hadn t had an invasion for decades. uber changed that but uber doesn t want to play by any rules and that doesn t make sense. the original rules were designed to serve legitimate public purposes and ensure that the cabs were safe and the drivers wouldn t jeopardize passengers and there was proper insurance.
contributing positively to the communities that they serve and their consumers and by the way, what you see in success of the sharing economy is that it s consumer demand driven. can i stop you for a second? people call sharing economy i don t understand why. no one is sharing anything. people are selling things a different way. let s just be clear. air bnb, uber, it s not like, hey, dude, hop in my car or just like hang out in my house. they are selling. it s a service. that s fine. let s just call it what it is. i think what you see in this new innovation economy are people sharing their talents, ideas, assets, resources that they bring as individuals and they are plugging into a whole new economy in a whole new way. they re not sharing them. they re selling them. just to be clear. people talk about it like we got some sort of hippy collective where everybody has their excess room or their ride and we re all it s just it s a really fascinating and in some ways incredible an
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