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If there's one thing I've learned from Uber and AirBnB, it's that if you say "less regulation for micro-businesses in Field X" the huge multinationals in Field X will declare they're not _actually_ in Field X, they're just brokers directing customers to the 5,000 micro-businesses that provide services.

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Have you learned that you wish Uber and AirBNB were strangled by regulation before they got off the ground?

I feel that's just hyperbole. Collecting hotel taxes, for instance, would not have affected AirBnB one bit.

Have you learned that most major hotel chains actually operate like AirBnB, i.e., individual hotels are operated individually but marketed under the same brand?

When you understand how the hotel industry works, you suddenly realize that AirBnB is really no different from Hilton or Best Western after all.

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