https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-sharing-economy-is-being-pulled-ever-farther-from-actual-sharing/2014/02/03 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:11:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-sharing-economy-is-being-pulled-ever-farther-from-actual-sharing/2014/02/03/comment-page-1#comment-635214 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:11:06 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=36479#comment-635214 Yes, its called collaborative consumption.
She sharing economy is not being pulled in any direction, only the use of language.
We must look at the substance not the PR.
Users may be sharing more, but the venture capitalised platforms are only intending to share with their shareholders.
Its like the virtuous and the church – only the most naive believers expect the church itself to be virtuous.
In my view any effort to accumulate the limited resource ‘money’ is antithetical to sharing.

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