This story underlines the value of the advice I gave to regulators in my July piece about Amazon in Quartz: start by demanding more data. We need more data about all of the platform economies if there is to be any hope of effective regulation.
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When New York's Taxi and Limousine commission forced Uber to hand over platform-level data, they found that 96% of the City's 80,00 drivers were making less than its minimum wage.
When wages were brought up, $225m a month went back into the local economy.
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