{"id":2904,"date":"2019-03-10T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2019\/03\/10\/the-sharing-economy-was-always-a-scam-by-susie_c\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:43:01","slug":"the-sharing-economy-was-always-a-scam-by-susie_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/the-sharing-economy-was-always-a-scam-by-susie_c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam by @susie_c"},"content":{"rendered":"

 What came next wasn\u2019t sharing. Power and control wasn\u2019t decentralized \u2014 it was even more concentrated in the hands of large and valuable platforms.<\/i>
The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam \u2013 OneZero<\/a><\/p>\n

Early sharing champions were ultimately correct about technology enabling a shift away from an ownership society, but what came next wasn\u2019t sharing. The rise of streaming services, subscription systems, and short-term rentals eclipsed the promise of nonmonetary resource sharing. The power and control wasn\u2019t decentralized; it was even more concentrated in the hands of large and valuable platforms. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why go through the trouble of swapping your own DVDs for a copy of Friends With Benefits, after all, when you can stream it through Amazon Prime Video for $2.99? The idea of paying for temporary access to albums rather than outright owning them may have been galling at first, but we\u2019re increasingly comfortable with renting all our music, along with our software, and our books. Downloading and sharing the materials that live on these streamed resources is impossible, illegal, or both. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new trust never materialized. Government regulation typically plays an important role in mediating consumer relationships with corporate firms and for good reason. Peer-to-peer platforms can make<\/a> discrimination<\/a> easier<\/a>, and they often claimed limited or zero liability when things went wrong<\/a>. New social media reputation tools couldn\u2019t prevent inevitable problems, especially when sharing companies did not institute background checks for their freelance workers or inspect homes and vehicles for safety.
Sharing didn\u2019t deliver broad financial stability either. The jobs eventually created by the sharing economy were poorly regulated and hastened the broader growth of contract labor, pushing down already low wages<\/a> for freelancers and employees alike. A few frequently quoted studies have claimed that soon, most of us will be freelancers<\/a>. But most of that freelance work<\/a> appears to be extremely part-time and merely supplemental income, and ride-hail driver turnover<\/a> in particular is high.
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In order to make money, especially the kind of money that tech investors expect, venture-backed companies couldn\u2019t just activate underutilized resources \u2014 they had to make more. For-profit businesses demand growth, and platforms demand scale. More than a decade into the sharing experiment, we\u2019ve been able to fully assess the costs. Capitalism wasn\u2019t tamed, as Werbach had hoped \u2014 it was stoked. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s just a transaction,\u201d Werbach says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t need to be dressed up in any language about changing the world or whatever.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 What came next wasn\u2019t sharing. Power and control wasn\u2019t decentralized \u2014 it was even more concentrated in the hands of large and valuable platforms.The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam \u2013 OneZero Early sharing champions were ultimately correct about technology enabling a shift away from an ownership society, but what came next wasn\u2019t sharing. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}