What's Yours Is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
Slee, Tom
Date Written: 2016-02-11
Publisher: OR Books
Year Published: 2016
Pages: 212pp Price: $18 ISBN: 978-1-682190-22-7
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX19792
The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the "old order." But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. And in What’s Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk. Drawing on original empirical research, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust, and community masks a darker reality.
