Sharing aint Caring

[John Bailey]

I'm interested in what P-Listers think of the new 'sharing economy'.

Businesses such as Uber, AirBnB, Skype etc enlist the rhetoric of a
kind of grassroots DIY anarchist economic system that sticks it to The
Man. I've read some articles that really persuasively argue the
opposite - this system is capitalism in its most naked form.

I'll let them do the talking. Would love to hear thoughts, esp as this
seems pertinent to Pynchon's own collisions of capitalism, anarchism,
communitarianism, collectivism, libertarianism etc in Against the Day.

"'Sharing economy' companies like Uber shift risk from corporations to
workers, weaken labor protections, and drive down wages.":

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/against-sharing/

"Companies in the “sharing economy” can only function because they are
using your “assets,” your resources: your car (Bla Bla Car,
Getaround), your apartment (Airbnb), and your computing power
(Skype)."

http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/06/the-politics-of-the-sharing-economy/#.VCU7zxbrG8H
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