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I feel like the term "sharing economy" would be better suited to something like where you share tools with your neighbors or something. Uber is a great busines

• mindslight 12y ago
  When learning the workings of the Internet, one feels an overwhelming sense of the empowering possibilities that global peer to peer communication brings. The marketing coup of modern web companies is to make us think that relying on centralized code out of our control embodies this spirit, and is thus the future. This involves downplaying these companies' powerful (and lucrative) roles, by making people focus only on what they facilitate. Thus, it makes perfect sense why the industry brands itself as "sharing" based - it makes you think about the interactions between participants, and ignore the cut going to the new middlemen.
• mercer 12y ago
  CouchSurfing would be a better example of 'sharing economy'...
• avz 12y ago
  > If you are paying for the service it is not sharing, is it? Yes, it is. In sharing there is no implication that it is for free, "to share" means simply "to use or enjoy something jointly or in turns." Source: http://thefreedictionary.com/share http://thefreedictionary.com/share
  • joshu 12y ago
    that's not really the connotation that everybody else shares.