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Uber, an example of sharing economy as a group toward Uber by organizing labor
Uber is a platform that connects drivers and unions.
passengers only through their smartphones. For these reasons, Uber in Korea is still
As the term ‘platform’ represents, the drivers illegal, and only a specific service called Uber
using Uber don’t own a taxi. It is a transport black, a higher-class version of general Uber, is
service without any drivers. Uber becomes the approved to use. However, it is an undeniable
connections, but of course, all the payments truth that using Uber is a massive trend around
are processed only by the mobile application. the world.
The application takes about 20% of the fare
and the drivers get the remainder of it. There Shortcomings of sharing economy
A New Wave of Sharing Economy are several drivers that earn high profit through the system of sharing economy because of the
Still, unexpected danger is involved in using
Uber service.
lack of process that forms the base of sharing
economy and insufficient consciousness
that it is a business transaction. Especially
products and services traded through business
transactions made online by peer to peer
cannot be guaranteed since the security system
has low quality. Moreover, not encouraging
The customers can easily utilize the system
by downloading the mobile application, after
signing up with a registered credit card. After
that simple procedure, whenever a customer
uses the system, the charging fee is paid
automatically through the application. The
charging fee varies by time and date. It means
that the system has its own algorithm which
controls the price by the demands and supplies. new consumption can be another problem,
There are not only positive features of Uber and it can lead the existing industry to fail.
but also side effects of it. It has led many taxi Inadequate legal institutions can also activate
drivers in numerous cities such as London, black economy.
Milan, Berlin and Madrid to protest over the
wide use of Uber. It is not so different in the Park, Joomi (2-2)
U.S., the origin of Uber, since the endangered wnalwnal0127@naver.com
taxi drivers are showing moves of opposition
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