Sharing economy

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Some call it the gig economy. Others call it the peer economy. Others, the collaborative economy, or "collaborative consumption." Still others, the sharing economy. Tomayto, tomahto. More important than what it's called is what it is. As Fast Company contributor Rachael Botsman pointed out in a now-classic article on the topic, the sharing economy has

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What do you call an entrepreneur that’s also a micro-entrepreneur, and leveraging sharing economy websites to generate income needed to support their startup ventures? A new classification is needed to describe this growing population being empowered to take increased professional risk by peer-to-peer marketplaces such as Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Lyft, to name a few.

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Image via Grist. Yesterday Matthew Yglesias of Slate posted, “There Is No ‘Sharing Economy.’” Well, he’s a little late to the party beating that dead horse. His story’s punch line, an old one, is basically that the sharing economy isn’t sharing, it’s renting (a la Airbnb, Zipcar, etc.), so the term “sharing economy” should die.

Airbnb may have won the latest round in its legal battle this week, but it’s clear the backlash against the sharing economy is just beginning. It’s not surprising. Google the term and you’ll find headlines mentioning the sharing economy in nearly every major publication and news site — just in [...]