What's yours is mine
Subtitle: against the sharing economy
By: Tom Slee
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781944869373
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Sharing; Internet marketing; Social aspects; Free enterprise; Business enterprises; Technological innovations; New business enterprises; Economic aspects
Description: "The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the "old order"--and they've succeeded in effecting the "biggest change in the American workforce in over a century," according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. And in What's Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk. Drawing on original empirical research, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust, and community masks a darker reality."--Amazon.com.
Notes: "Updated and with a new preface by the author"--Page [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: The sharing economy; title: The sharing economy landscape; title: A place to stay with Airbnb; title: On the move with Uber; title: Neighbors helping neighbors; title: Strangers trusting strangers; title: A short history of openness; title: Open wide; title: What's yours is mine.