[ElevenLathe]

I was actually trying to say something more than that workers should be considered investors, because Uber drivers and AirBnB hosts are more than just workers: they literally supply the main working capital of their respective concerns. They are owner-operators in the same sense that a taxi driver who owns his cab is, or in the same sense as an orange grower who is part of the "Florida's Natural" co-op.

Certainly workers deserve a seat at the table, and that's a fine debate to have, but surely even the most dyed-in-the-wool capitalists can agree that the owners of the capital deserve a seat at the table, and that an enterprise which by fiat excludes major capital contributors from ownership is not really a capitalist enterprise, but rather some other more exploitative form.

[harryh]

If the owners of the houses & cars want to sign over their property to AirBnB & Uber then you might have a point, but if they want to keep their property for themselves then they aren't really supplying "the main working capital of their respective concerns."

You can't have your cake and eat it too.