[JonFish85]

I agree with you. I suspect that this "sharing" economy idea that they're based around is going to evaporate; I think people will start to realize that Uber/Airbnb are taking a very healthy cut of the profits and carefully sticking their not-employees with all of the costs associated with running a business, costs that maybe aren't immediately apparent (costs of depreciation on a car, costs of insurance for these types of businesses, costs of paying taxes as an independent contractor). It's very lucrative for Airbnb and Uber because they can (try to) distance themselves from any rule breaking because it's not THEM breaking the rules, it's the independent contractors.

But I think fairly soon it'll start to evaporate a bit. Sure they might exist, but I'm very skeptical of both companies' $10B+ evaluations, and I think they'll end up becoming something like you mentioned.