<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rasigan Maharajh</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rasigan@ieri.org.za">rasigan@ieri.org.za</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:30 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: "Required reading for anyone interested in technology and economic justice"<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">OR Books</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@orbooks.com" target="_blank">info@orbooks.com</a>></span><br>Date: 13 July 2017 at 23:30<br>Subject: "Required reading for anyone interested in technology and economic justice"<br>To: <a href="mailto:rasigan@ieri.org.za" target="_blank">rasigan@ieri.org.za</a><br><br><br><u></u>

    
        
        
        
        

    


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<font style="color:FFFFFF;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:9px;line-height:11px">The so-called “sharing economy” is capitalism as usual.</font>
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<center><a href="http://orbooks.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6180a1909cdc59a9df25c1a94&id=2f00ce7094&e=fa9ffa4bee" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#000;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/6180a1909cdc59a9df25c1a94/images/eca9a923-bb06-421b-96ea-a246cdba6ed0.gif" width="100%" style="border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:auto!important"></a></center><br>




<h2 style="margin:0;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;color:#000000!important;line-height:140%;display:block;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:0px;text-align:center">The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism: Lyft, Airbnb, Uber, and others who claim a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order.”
<br><br>But, as internationally-acclaimed technologist <a href="http://orbooks.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6180a1909cdc59a9df25c1a94&id=30048d10fa&e=fa9ffa4bee" style="border-bottom:1px solid #38a3d1;color:#38a3d1;padding-bottom:1px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Tom Slee</a> 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.
<br><br>In other words, capitalism as usual.</h2><br><br>


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