Hello guys, today we are going to talk about the ‘sharing economy’.
Sharing economy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) based sharing of access to goods and services (Investopedia, 2019). Business has applied this theory in multiple ways, for example, share stuff (Spacer, Airbnb), share rides (Uber, Car Next Door, Shebah), share delivery (Freight Match, Zoom2U), etc (Loans et al., 2019).
Uber is a transport platform that easily makes everyone to be a driver and transfer people from one place to their destination with clicking your phone on their application (Loans et al., 2019).
Although Uber is convenient for people’s lives, there are also some claims and negative impact written by customers, for instance, fake waiting time, unfair charging. The first picture below shows that people always have to spend nearly double time on waiting (ProductReview.com.au, 2019). The second figure describes that the same route costs at a different price (nearly three times), this is an unfair cost (ConsumerAffairs, 2019).
However, Uber has to face some ethical issues, both the driver and passenger have safety concerns. Such as sexual harassment and sexual assaulting of the passengers, beating up of the drivers, etc (UKEssays.com, 2019).
Here are some tips for avoiding these similar tragedies from happening again.
1. Go home earlier.
2. Don’t take uber while drunk.
3. Don’t take Uber only by yourself too late at night, especially women.
Any suggestions or any experiences want to share? I here listening😊
Reference:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharing-economy.asp
https://www.ratecity.com.au/top-30-sharing-economy-sites
https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/uber
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/uber.html
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/business/uber-ethical-issues.php
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