Why the term 'sharing economy' needs to die

Nothing is being shared when you hire a cleaner to tidy your house or a car to drive you to work, even if you use an app to do itThe “sharing economy” is a meaningless term that was only coined in the first place because of the tech industry’s desire to pretend everything it does is new and groundbreaking.Now, almost a decade after it started seeing use, it’s worse than simply being meaningless: it’s actively obfuscatory, lumping together a hugely disparate bunch of