First I’ve EVER heard of these businesses
Fox News has reported about Uber
Really? You need to get out more! (just kidding :) )
Seriously though, I’ve used both Uber and AirBnB. I travelled across Europe staying at places i rented on AirBnb. It was a great service. Uber has been half the cost of a cab ride when I’ve used it. Always in a clean, new car with a pleasant driver.
Government hates them because they can’t control them.
These businesses are actually very well known. They’re not anywhere close to the scale of the taxi, hotel, or other service industries - and as such not everyone has heard of them - but in business & technology circles they’re becoming VERY disruptive (as in: a new generation of middle-and-up-classes are dumping the norm for these new forms, completely disinterested in the old providers). They’re like Tesla (heard of them? luxury electric cars, scaring the crap out of the auto industry): hold only a fraction of the industry’s customers, but growing _very_ fast and eating into established businesses’ base.
You may be truthful and are just out of touch. Or your bragging to make a point you don’t use their services. I don’t use any of the services but I know who and what they are. I live in the boonies. No Uber and no one wants to rent my house for the weekend.
Having said that - I do think some rich Asians would love to spend a long weekend shooting guns, stomping around in the woods and getting to be a redneck for a bit. Probably pay a bunch of yen to play redneck.