Fighting Uber’s Death Star With a Rebel Alliance of Co-Op Platforms

Summary

As Mark Andreessen noted, software is eating the world because once it’s developed, it scales to infinity. That means that once a worker’s co-op of drivers clones Uber’s platform in free/open code, drivers in every city in the world can disrupt the company, throw off its rent-seeking, and fill their pockets with the money the company siphons off for providing very little at the margins.