The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam
8th March 2019
For years, the sharing economy was pitched as an altruistic form of capitalism?—?an answer to consumption run amok. Why own your own car or power tools or copies of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up if each sat idle for most of its life? The sharing economy would let strangers around the world maximize the utility of every possession to the benefit of all.
Uh-huh. That works about as well as you think that it might.