An enlightening article from PhD candidate Max Holleran on openDemocracy about the worrying trends of the sharing economy in terms of monetising everyday life. Yet he also acknowledges what sharing should really mean in terms of the state provision of public goods and social welfare. As he writes: the real future of sharing has much more to do with the revanchist attack on welfare state provisions occurring in Madrid, Lisbon, and Dublin. Commitment to provisioning societies with common resources – such as education, infrastructure, and health care – is another scale at which we might examine our new notion of sharing. The picture is not pretty.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:15:37 +0000
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