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User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms
- The divide between those who do and don’t own capital is an important driver of widening wealth inequality [50]. Forms of accessible co-ownership could be an antidote to chronic wage stagnation and anxieties about job-replacing automation.
from User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms by Nathan Schneider
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- As early as 2017, executives at the ride-sharing platform Uber reportedly met with US Securities and Exchange Commission officials about granting company stock to their independent-contractor drivers.
By February 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that, with their initial public offerings approaching, Uber and its competitor Lyft found a way to ... See morefrom User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms by Nathan Schneider
Joey DeBruin added 2y ago