Sharing Is Caring

October, 2015

IN THE WILD WEST OF THE SHARING ECONOMY, WHO IS THE SHERIFF? ? APARTMENT TRASHED. CAR TOTALED. POP-UP BROTHEL BUSTED. Based solely on the head­lines, peer-to-peer rental services such as Airbnb (homes) and Getaround (cars) sound like nightmares. Go a level deeper and you'll find another glut of stories that question the legality of turn­ing privately owned assets into commercial moneymakers. The so-called shar­ing economy is under a microscope because it is disrupting tradi­tional markets left a...