# Prof. John Horton comments on labor practices of sharing economy businesses like TaskRabbit

1 Faculty News July 22, 2014 ![The New Yorker logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032750.jpg?itok=hERliZMl)>

Excerpt from [The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/taskrabbit-redux) -- "This isn’t to say that TaskRabbit is to blame for the present state of affairs; in fact, it’s probably helping underemployed people find work that might otherwise have been difficult to track down. 'Increasing demand for relatively low-skilled people is an attractive proposition,' [\[John\] Horton](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/john-horton) told me. 'Sometimes the sharing-economy rhetoric is sort of BS-y. It really is rich people buying from poor people. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.'”

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