https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-sharing-economy-is-using-your-assets/2014/11/10 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-sharing-economy-is-using-your-assets/2014/11/10/comment-page-1#comment-966112 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:30:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=46702#comment-966112 I would frame it differently: Netarchists like Uber and Lyft are able to enclose the sharing economy *because of* intervention — the IP law that support’s the walled-garden apps — and Uber and Lyft themselves need to suffer creative destruction at the hands of open-source alternatives that violate and evade the regulations. Uber and Lyft are a halfway point towards the real thing, like Encarta was before Wikipedia destroyed it.

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