# Professor Arun Sundararajan argues that our social safety net should be updated in light of the growth of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News January 6, 2016 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [TIME](http://time.com/4169532/sharing-economy-poll/) -- "'There’s something nice about getting a regular paycheck,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business professor at New York University, 'but we’ve got to get away from thinking that that is the only model.'"

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