[whytaka]

This article really clears up for me the skepticism I felt about these new companies. I've heard the term the Sharing economy before but I didn't know these companies were trying to reappropriate the word. It takes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance to be convinced that what you're doing is sharing even when you're taking people's money.

Back when I was a teenager, I dreamt up that the women's rights movement was ultimately a ploy by the capitalist class to dilute the value of labor in the market. Technology has done the same with our time by making us surrender the concept of off time. Now this sharing economy wants to take away our space and stuff. We retreat a little to bide time but it's easy to permanently lose ground.

[k__]

Sharing is good as long as no company takes advantage of it.

We'll end up with a bunch of rental companies, where only big companies own stuff and you have to rent everything...

[king_jester]

> Back when I was a teenager, I dreamt up that the women's rights movement was ultimately a ploy by the capitalist class to dilute the value of labor in the market.

This is most certainly a dream, because in reality women's rights and feminist movements are in part about getting women actually paid for the labor they perform.

[Joeboy]

> This is most certainly a dream, because in reality women's rights and feminist movements are in part about getting women actually paid for the labor they perform.

The idea that capitalism subverted feminism in the pursuit of cheap labour is shared by some feminists, and isn't necessarily inherently antifeminist.

[king_jester]

I've not heard this before, from what I've seen and read feminism has been partly about the exploitation of women's labor, an exploitation that has occurred for a long, long time. That women's labor isn't paid for or is underpaid is a long standing issue.

[guard-of-terra]

"women's rights movement was ultimately a ploy by the capitalist class"

Rather it was about family not working as advertized.

Movements don't start your social troubles, they react.