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Your risk, my reward: is the sharing economy becoming less selfish?

  • Written by The Conversation
imageDetractors of Airbnb hold protest signs in a rally in New York.Justin Lane/EPA

In the early days of the sharing economy, players like Uber and Airbnb provided a platform for their services, but no such protection on the risks that came with them. They shifted the risk instead to the buyer’s side or the seller’s side — sometimes...

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