By Matthew Benzmiller

By Matthew Benzmiller

Labor unions love centralization, and so absolutely hate the sharing economy. 

After all, the inherent nature of industries in the shared economy is decentralization. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb contract out work to individuals with available rides and rooms. This set up allows the individuals working for sharing economy to have more freedom in most aspects of their work.

For example, Uber advertises to prospective drivers:

By Olivia Grady

On Labor Day 2016, top union bosses spent the day campaigning for Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia, New Hampshire and Illinois.

Some of the unions represented included the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), United Steelworkers (USW), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, had an article published in Forbes on September 2, 2016, about how the next Republican President should take on big labor and bring freedom to American workers:

In the last century, the United States has spent untold trillions to bring democracy to far-flung corners of the globe.

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, had an article published in The American Spectator on September 1, 2016, about the funding of Democrat politicians by unions and how Minnesota could be a competitive state without the unions:

By: Matthew Benzmiller

As Uber releases more about their plans for self-driving cars, the creeping concerns about automation replacing jobs have risen again. The common fear of the externalities of automation has been ongoing since basically the beginning of automation in the 18^th century.

By Matthew Benzmiller

We don’t really know.

“It’s the economy, stupid!” could have been a slogan for this election cycle too. Due to slow economic growth, the economy is one of the top issues debated during this election cycle. One statistic that has been tossed around by political pundits and politicians alike is that Americans haven’t had a pay raise in 16 years, represented by the falling median income in the United States since the late 90s to the early 2000s.