sharing economy

theguardian.com

Welcome to the world of the platform

Powerful tech firms are altering not just the way we buy things, but could sweep away an entire economic model

»… instead of adhering to a precise and rigorous code that spells out the rights of customers and the obligations of service providers – the cornerstone of the modern regulatory state – platform operators rely on the widely distributed knowledge of participants in a service, hoping that the market will eventually punish those who misbehave.«

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Jun 08, 2015

solobeta.dk

The Sharing Economy Needs an Immediate Reality Check

The sharing economy presents partial solutions to the wrong problems. To harness the power of sharing, organizations need to fundamentally change their relationship to their users.

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Apr 07, 2015

Airbnb has a dead people problem: The morbid side of the sharing economy

We’ve thought a lot about what death means for our digital accounts, leading big tech companies to address the afterlife of data…. But thanks to sharing economy start-ups, it’s no longer just data that sticks around online after death; it includes people’s homes, cars, and belongings.

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Feb 12, 2015

techcrunch.com

The Sharing Economy And The Future Of Finance

Banking has gone from somewhere you go to something you do. If we are to believe that the sharing economy will shape our future, banking and all financial..

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Jan 12, 2015

medium.com

Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

There isn’t just one, inevitable future of work. Let us apply the power of our technological imagination to practice forms of cooperation and collaboration. Worker–owned cooperatives could design their own apps-based platforms, fostering truly peer-to-peer ways of providing services and things, and speak truth to the new platform capitalists.

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Dec 07, 2014

sfgate.com

Cooperatives give new meaning to sharing economy

“Co-ops also fly in the face of the Silicon Valley emphasis on venture capital, in which companies turn over partial ownership and control in exchange for money to grow big, fast”.

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Nov 13, 2014

time.com

'Smart Cities' Should Mean 'Sharing Cities'

When mayors and developers focus on technology rather than people, smart quickly becomes stupid

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Oct 14, 2014

medium.com

The Case Against Sharing

Susie Cagle uncovers the self-delusions currently haunting the collaborative consumption community.

“But sharing businesses aren’t just creating new income streams from nothing. In “disrupting” even troubled markets — the taxi industry has had this coming for a long time — the glory of the peer economy comes at the expense of other workers’ livelihoods” - Susie Cagle.

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Jun 11, 2014

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