Some good quotes: > In reality the semantics of this arrangement frees companies from any social responsibility. > The app also makes service requests for use

Some good quotes: > In reality the semantics of this arrangement frees companies from any social responsibility. > The app also makes service requests for users casual, fun, and — crucially — impersonal. When a customer reviews the service they have been given, the real life implications of that action are far from their mind. This is kind of the original sin of all "sharing economy" businesses: they help people abstract away the sometimes-unpleasant problem of treating service providers like human beings, in exchange for "sharing" (read: extracting) wealth from local communities.