Sharing aint Caring

[Mark Kohut]

when companies do this in our world, they are of the day. In general. 

Pynchon's ways of perceptions show---among other things, this remark is not all-inclusive---aspects of anarchistic "sharing" that are ' free'---that T-shirt pile. 

Willfully chosen " barter" economy might count against the day. 

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> On Sep 26, 2014, at 5:26 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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