Actual sharing like couch surfing hasn't been nearly as popular.
If it were a real sharing economy, the developers and system engineers on the platform would make the same hourly rates as the drivers. In such a way everyone would contribute to the co-op and everyone would benefit.
It'd be interesting to see a price breakdown internally at Uber or Lyft and see how much people would actually get paid if every driver/contractor and every dev/admin/janitor/board member were to make the same hourly rate.
If it were a real sharing economy, the developers and system
engineers on the platform would make the same hourly rates as
the drivers. In such a way everyone would contribute to the
co-op and everyone would benefit.
Different services are worth different amounts depending on the value they yield and, sometimes, who they're targeted at. If a relatively small team of programmers can enable a massive business, then they may be deserving of apparently outsized compensation for their time and work.