Daily bread 03/03/2014

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• Politics & The Sharing Economy, by Adam Parsons

  • the concept and practice of sharing resources is fast becoming a mainstream phenomenon across North America, Western Europe and other world regions
  • everything from cars and bicycles to housing, workplaces, food, household items, and even time or expertise
  • the sharing economy leverages information technology to empower individuals or organisations to distribute, share and re-use excess capacity in goods and services.
  • drastic change is needed in the wake of a collapsed economy and an overstretched planet, and the old idea of the American dream
  • excessive consumerism and commercialisation leads us to see the 'good life' as the 'goods life'
  • more people are rejecting the materialistic attitudes that defined recent decades, and are gradually shifting towards a different way of living that is based on connectedness and sharing rather than ownership and conspicuous consumption.
  • Almost all forms of localised sharing are economical, and can lead to significant cost savings or earnings for individuals and enterprises
  • sharing can also help us to feel connected to neighbours or co-workers, and even build community and make us feel happier.
  • couch-surfing, car sharing or tool libraries
  • help rebuild the social ties that have been lost through market culture
  • an antidote to the hyper-individualised, hyper-consumer culture of today
  • a path towards achieving widespread prosperity within the earth’s natural limits
  • Various commentators argue that the proliferation of new business ventures under the umbrella of sharing are nothing more than “supply and demand continuing its perpetual adjustment to new technologies and fresh opportunities”
  • the sharing economy is being co-opted by purely commercial interests
  • making money from new modes of consumption is not really ‘sharing’ per se,
  • author Evgeny Morozov
  • the sharing economy is having a pernicious effect on equality and basic working conditions, in that it is fully compliant with market logic, is far from valuing human relationships over profit, and
  • is even amplifying the worst excesses of the dominant economic model.
  • erosion of full-time employment, the assault on trade unions and the disappearance of healthcare and insurance benefits,
  • sharing economy is accelerating the transformation of workers into “always-on self-employed entrepreneurs who must think like brands”
  • roblem in assessing the true potential of economic sharing is one of vagueness in definition and wide differences in understanding
  • conventional interpretation of the sharing economy is at present focused on its financial and commercial aspects,
  • subset of 'collaborative consumption' within the entire 'collaborative economy' movement,
  • “the communal, collective production that characterises the collective commons”.
  • unpaid care, support and nurturing that we provide for one another, as well as the shared use of infrastructure and shared public services.
  • cooperatives of all kinds (from worker to housing to retailer and consumer co-ops) also offer alternative models for shared service provision
  • equity and collective ownership is prioritised
  • questions concerning the shared public realm and participatory democracy
  • a vibrant sharing economy (when interpreted in this light) can counter the political apathy that characterises modern consumer society.
  • shared public realm is essential for the expression of participatory democracy and the development of a good society
  • all its activities are tied together in how they harness the existing resources of a community and grow its wealth
  • in contradistinction to the mainstream economy that mostly generates wealth for people outside of people’s communities, and inherently generates extreme inequalities and ecological destruction – which Orsi contends that the sharing economy can help reverse
  • the democratic, non-exploitative, redistributive and truly ‘sharing’ potential of worker and consumer cooperatives in all their guises.
  • which direction this emerging movement for sharing will take in the years ahead.
  • it offers both opportunities and reasons for optimism as well as pitfalls and some serious concerns.
  • reflects a growing shift in our values and social identities as ‘citizens vs consumers’, and is helping us to rethink notions of ownership and prosperity in a world of finite resources, scandalous waste and massive wealth disparities.
  • becoming a counter-cultural movement that can help us to value relationships more than things, and offer us the possibility of re-imagining politics and constructing a more participative democracy,
  • pose a challenge to the global capitalist/consumerist model of developmen
  • Unless the sharing of resources is promoted in relation to human rights and concerns for equity, democracy, social justice and sound environmental stewardship, then the various claims that sharing is a new paradigm that can address the world’s interrelated crises is indeed empty rhetoric or utopian thinking without any substantiation
  • Sharing our skills through Hackerspaces, our unused stuff through GoodShuffle or a community potluck through mealshare
  • let’s not pretend that car shares, clothes swaps, co-housing, shared vacation homes and so on are going to seriously address economic and climate chaos, unjust power dynamics or inequitable wealth distribution.
  • to enhance equity, rebuild community, improve well-being, democratise national and global governance, defend and promote the global commons, even to point the way towards a more cooperative international framework to replace the present stage of competitive neoliberal globalisation.
  • now being broadened to include the role of governments in sharing public infrastructure, political power and economic resources within countries is a hopeful indication that the emerging sharing movement is slowly moving in the right direction.

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