Free Market Economics: Uber, Airbnb, & Feastly vs Government Regulation - Learn Liberty

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1. Well done. Clear and effective to share! Thanks.
2. Learn Liberty was paid by Uber/Air BNB to produce this video. Not all govt regulation is bad - ex, the insistence that Air BNB houses have smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, or that Uber drivers pass criminal background checks and their vehicles pass basic safety inspections.
3. completely paid of by the Koch brothers
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5. Government always wants a piece of the pie, the biggest piece
6. Don't use that sickly sweet backing track. It makes your information unreliable. That's my opinion anyway. It doesn't sound good.
7. Near the end it said this was a project of IHS. What organization is that?
8. New Uber users, get a free ride when you use code brandont5494ue
9. So the logic of this libertarian propaganda is:
   Paid sick days are OLD thus BAD!
   Price surging is NEW thus GOOD!
10. I would like to see sharing profit app... All this unregulated things will collapse the economy..... Because they are not creating a middle class they creating poor people society, nothing good will be in the end
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12. What a great way of explaining the "sharing economy" and why regulators are against it haha....at risk....Those big bad regulators trying to keep people from making a profit! HA! Let me tell you about the "old outdated" forms of regulation. In my city we have zoning- vacation rentals are not allowed in areas zoned residential-- they are allowed in areas that are not zoned residential. I was evicted from my apartment over the summer so my landlord could "be the best version of himself" by making 4x the amount of money on airbnb....thanks "today's economy". He now rents out my old apartment for $225 a night on airbnb and it seems to be renting 20 nights a month. Meanwhile there's nowhere else for me to rent within 30 minutes of where I work in town. Mind you...he's renting in an area that is zoned residential- where vacation rentals are strictly prohibited. Airbnb keeps pushing my city to "de-regulate" ...meanwhile the locals are being kicked out of their apartments to make way for this "new economy". Who paid for this inane manipulative video?
13. the government needs more regulations and taxes on these new companies. if new companies are allowed to thrive, they will take business away from services that we already have and a lot of people will lose their jobs. special interests need to get involved so that the big companies that hire more people don't lose business. small businesses are the real problem here. they don't pay high enough wages. new businesses like uber are bad because they offer the wrong services. people don't know what services they really need, so the government needs to regulate services we don't need out of business.
    
    I want to be a government regulator some day. Am I doing good so far?
14. I DON'T KNOW MR. KOOPMAN. LET'S ASK HILLARY CLINTON.
15. The supposed "information problem" is in reality non-existent. I mean, look at prices, for starters, and people have always found ways of finding the information regardless of difficulty. And it has become even easier because of the Internet.
16. Regulations are an important way for professional associations to protect and strengthen their monopoly on the services they offer. By limiting competition, they are able to maximize the income for their current members while raising the bar to dissuade competition. For example, you are perfectly welcome to compete in the market of massage therapy just as soon as you complete your 1,500-hour certification.
17. When it comes to meals, don't we need regulations to ensure that it was prepared in sanitary conditions and with non-expired ingredients?
    
    And when it comes to renting via a service, how would you deal with squatters who initially pay and then refuse to leave?
    
    I really like the idea of the sharing economy and I'm not trying to attack it. I just want to know what solutions it has come up with--other than a rating system--to deal with issues between the consumer and producer.
18. but...but...but... MUH SIKIORITAH!! Everyone knows onle the God State can protect us
19. The answer is clear. Just look at what the idiots in Broward county FL. did to Uber.
20. If it aint broke, dont fix it. If sharing is caring, this new system can turn a serviced based business seem useful. But take the caring part out and down goes the business along with quality of services offered. Remember, you get what you pay for, and if you dont care about yesterdays policies and why they were enforced in the first place, we all get a history lesson. Is there an app that tracks ones laziness with an annalysis of productivity towards the brains reward system? Sometimes you have to go get your own car and go apt. Hunting on your own somewher3 youv never been and feel the sence of accomplishment of your own hard work. If i have it and you want it, you will never get your own if you keep renting mine. But saving up to get your own is more rewarding and guaruntees independance. Besides what if im not in the mood to share one day and charge more to borrrow my time and the thing you dont have. Youd feel like a scrub depending on an app to find a ride. No thanks, id rather walk