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Professor Arun Sundararajan responds to Airbnb and Uber's positioning as champions of the middle class
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Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle -- "'Their narratives are grounded in the truth,' [Sundararajan] said. 'Uber creates a form of work for hundreds of thousands of people. Airbnb’s hundreds of thousands of hosts are leading better lives because they can supplement their income with their Airbnb revenues.' Although they are multibillion-dollar companies, their models 'actually do share a pretty large fraction of the value created (by renting rooms or giving rides) with the people providing the service.'"
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