The "Sharing" Economy: Not Really Sharing

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Mon, 03/30/2015 - 12:00am
The "sharing economy" v. real sharing
They call Airbnb and Uber parts of the "Sharing Economy", but they are only devices for the well-off to get cheap convenient work out of the economically desperate. What is real sharing? This article by Sam Bliss on the Grist.org website, read here by Patricia Kuhlberg, makes it clear.  
Photo Credit: Grist/Amelia Bates
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