“As best we can tell, the politics of the venture capital elite boils down to fending off higher taxes, keeping labour costs low and reducing the ‘burden’ of government regulation. … Silicon Valley could start by putting a stop to pretending that the sharing economy is about anything other than making a killing.” The “sharing economy” is just as exhilarating and vexing as the Web 2.0 meme was nine years ago.
Curated from ourworld.unu.edu
A really good provocation here around what we mean by the sharing economy and its relationship with big finance and profits.