What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee

By Tom Slee

“Building upon his past empirical reviews, Tom Slee explains how ‘sharing economy’ businesses have used feel-good rhetoric to masks intolerant and irresponsible company models.”
—Chris Jay Hoofnagle, lecturer in place of abode; school director,
Berkeley middle for legislations & Technology

“The Sharing financial system frames its critics as Luddites, bureaucrats and rent-seekers, yet Tom Slee is none of those. A considerate technologist, Slee paints a well-researched photo of businesses that experience outfitted up immense industry valuations via externalizing their charges and sidestepping laws designed to guard shoppers. This publication is clear-eyed and important.”
—Sue Gardner, former govt director of the Wikimedia Foundation

“Tom Slee's crucial new booklet indicates that the sharing economic climate has little or no to do with sharing. Slee makes use of wit, readability, and evidence to demolish the self-serving mythologies of Silicon Valley marketers and determine what Uber, Amazon and their style are quite up to.” —Henry Farrell, co-chair, Social technology study Council's electronic tradition Initiative; professor of political technological know-how and foreign affairs, George Washington University

“In this lucid and rigorous publication, Tom Slee dismantles the facade of the sharing economic climate, revealing hidden and infrequently troubling truths approximately businesses like Uber and Airbnb. for you to know how web companies relatively function, What’s Yours Is Mine is where to start.” —Nicholas Carr, writer of The Shallows and The Glass Cage

“In a box crowded with tech-utopian blowhards and app-happy snake oil salesmen, Tom Slee stands aside. His laser-sharp insights concerning the genuine influence of renowned start-ups on our livelihoods and groups are the suitable antidote to sharing economic climate hype. What’s Yours Is Mine is needed analyzing for someone attracted to expertise and monetary justice.” —Astra Taylor, writer of The People’s Platform: Taking again strength and tradition within the electronic Age

The information is stuffed with their names, supposedly the leading edge of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and plenty of extra businesses have a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order”—and they’ve succeeded in effecting the “biggest switch within the American team in over a century,” based on former Secretary of work Robert Reich.

But this new wave of know-how businesses is funded and suggested by way of very old-school enterprise capitalists. And in What’s Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economic system damages improvement, extends harsh free-market practices into formerly safe parts of our lives, and offers the chance for a number of humans to make fortunes via harmful groups and pushing weak participants to tackle unsustainable risk.

Drawing on unique empirical learn, Slee indicates that the pleasant language of sharing, belief, and neighborhood mask a darker reality.