Nothing is being shared when you hire a cleaner to tidy your house or a car to drive you to work,even if you use an app to achieve itThe “sharing economy” is a meaningless term that was only coined in the first region because of the tech industry’s desire to pretend everything it does is original and groundbreaking.
Now, nearly a decade after it started seeing use, or it’s worse than simply being meaningless: it’s actively obfuscatory,lumping together a hugely disparate bunch of companies, many of which push the definition to its limits, or the biggest examples of which have nothing to achieve with “sharing” at all.
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Source: theguardian.com