Tom Slee

The Dark Side of the Sharing Economy

What's Yours Is Mine

We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it's not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee unpacks the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice. Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to re-examine our assumptions . Slee makes use of game theory to argue that individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise, this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.

The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice

No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart

O livro de Tom Slee tem o mérito de desmistificar a aura de esperança com que a Economia do Compartilhamento foi encarada em seus primórdios. Ele é inspirado, como diz o autor na conclusão, por um sentimento de traição. Uberização: a nova onda do trabalho precarizado é uma importante denúncia contra o cinismo dos que se apresentam ao grande público como promotores da cooperação social e do uso parcimonioso dos recursos, mas que na verdade estão entre os mais importantes vetores da concentração de renda, da desregulamentação generalizada e da perda de autonomia dos indivíduos e das comunidades no mundo atual. — Ricardo Abramovay, no prefácio Uber, Airbnb e companhia juram que as novas tecnologias nos colocaram às portas de um mundo incrível: vizinhos ajudando vizinhos, cidades compartilhadas, transporte eficiente, desconhecidos confiando uns nos outros. Mas o texto cortante de Tom Slee nos convida a olhar as promessas da chamada Economia do Compartilhamento sob o prisma de um movimento vertiginoso do Vale do Silício para fazer avançar a desregulação sobre todas as áreas de nossas vidas, desafiando as regras democráticas, remodelando as cidades e arrecadando bilhões para seus executivos.

A nova onda do trabalho precarizado

Uberização

Contre Airbnb, Uber et autres avatars de "l'économie du partage"

Ce qui est à toi est à moi

Airbnb, Uber und andere Unternehmen der Sharing Economy geben sich als Speerspitze eines neuen Wirtschaftens. Sie künden von einer Epoche, in der wir Eigentum und Dienstleistungen unter Gleichen teilen und tauschen. Die altbekannten Probleme des Kapitalismus – Überproduktion, Ressourcenverschwendung und Umweltzerstörung – könnten auf diese Weise gelöst werden, so das Versprechen, und Vertrauensbeziehungen zwischen vormals Fremden würden zu einer neuen, besseren Gesellschaft führen. Dieses Buch blickt hinter die Fassade und zeigt ein völlig anderes Bild: Einige wenige Firmen, die längst in den Händen der großen Risikokapitalgeber liegen, verdienen Milliarden an der Vermittlung von Teilen und Tauschen. Dabei dringen sie in vormals nicht ökonomisierte Lebensbereiche wie die Nachbarschaftshilfe vor, umgehen Errungenschaften wie Arbeitsschutzgesetze und Mindestlohn und verschärfen die Wohnungsnot in den Metro­polen der Welt. Damit verlagern sie das unternehmerische Risiko vollständig auf ihre Vertragspartner und schaffen ein neues Prekariat aus Tagelöhnern, das sich mit mager bezahlten Gelegenheitsjobs mühsam über Wasser hält. Deins ist meins zeigt, wie sich eine gute Idee in ein ausbeuterisches Geschäftsmodell verwandelt hat, und stellt uns die unbequeme Frage, ob das die schöne neue Welt ist, zu der wir durch unser Konsumverhalten beitragen wollen.

Die unbequemen Wahrheiten der Sharing Economy

Deins ist Meins

We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it’s not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee examines the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice. Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to re-examine our assumptions. Slee makes use of game theory to argue that individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise, this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.

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