sharing economy Startup offers to build studio apartments in homeowners' backyards and split the rental income Mark Frauenfelder

design Fiverr's new recruiting ad promises to literally work you to death Cory Doctorow

law One professor's nightmare renting her house through the sharing economy Andrea James

uk Uber's VAT-avoidance means it owes millions to EU states and will face huge cuts to future EU profits Cory Doctorow

Business Excellent, deep series on Uber's Ponzi-scheme economics Cory Doctorow

Business Profile of People's Ride: a co-operative, driver-owned alternative to Uber Cory Doctorow

Business Airbnb stealth-updates terms of service, says it's not an insurer and requires binding arbitration Cory Doctorow

Business Uber and Lyft don't cover their cost of capital and rely on desperate workers Cory Doctorow

Business New rideshare service bets women are ready to leave Uber's sleazy, rape-friendly service Cory Doctorow

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Business Umbrella-sharing service: return it in 48h and it's free Cory Doctorow

politics IRS goes after gig workers instead of billionaire tax dodgers Ellsworth Toohey

economics The Hobbit economy not bucolic utopia but tenant farming and ostentatious displays of clan wealth Rob Beschizza

politics Murderer Kyle Rittenhouse survives on the attention economy Jason Weisberger

libraries San Francisco Library pushed into restricting public internet access because unhoused people use it Jason Weisberger

knowledge is power Some great compilations of current research about COVID-19 Jennifer Sandlin

Starbucks' union-busting tactics shared by others Elías Villoro

space junk FCC: satellites in low-Earth orbit must fall within 5 years of mission completion to clean up space Andrew Yi

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economics It's time to kill the carbon credit Thom Dunn