Oleh: Logan Marie Glitterbomb. Teks aslinya berjudul “Libraries Offer a Model for the Sharing Economy.” Diterjemahkan oleh Iman Amirullah dan Boggy MS Ketika istilah “ekonomi berbagi” menjadi populer saat ini, seringkali yang muncul adalah pemikiran mengenai aplikasi seperti Uber, Lyft, atau AirBNB, tetapi aplikasi semacam itu tidak lebih dari upaya untuk menopang merek ekonomi berbagi…

Autor: Logan Marie Glitterbomb. Fuente: Libraries Offer a Model for the Sharing Economy del 15 de noviembre 2021. Traducido al español por Diego Avila. Cuando el término «economía colaborativa» se escucha hoy en día, a menudo evoca pensamientos sobre aplicaciones como Uber, Lyft o AirBNB, pero estas aplicaciones son poco más que intentos de apropiarse…

Di Logan Marie Glitterbomb. Originale dal titolo Libraries Offer a Model for the Sharing Economy, pubblicato il 15 novembre 2021. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. L’espressione “economia della condivisione” è spesso associata ad applicazioni come Uber, Lyft o AirBNB, che sono poco più di un tentativo di cooptare il marchio dell’economia della condivisione senza seguirne i…

[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] When the term “sharing economy” is heard nowadays, it often conjures up thoughts of apps such as Uber, Lyft, or AirBNB, but such apps are little more than attempts at coopting the branding of the sharing economy while not…

Di Nick Ford. Originale pubblicato il 5 maggio 2016 con il titolo Airbnb isn’t Housin’ in Berlin. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Un recente articolo del Guardian cita un regolamento dell’amministrazione di Berlino che, dopo vent’anni di sonno, da alcuni anni viene applicata. La legge, chiamata “Zweckentfremdungsverbot” (!), limita le modalità di affitto di una proprietà immobiliare….

Di Logan Marie Glitterbomb. Originale pubblicato il 13 agosto 2017 con il titolo Airbnb and the Power of Anti-Fascist Markets. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. L’antifascismo è multiforme. Ci sono gli ultrapatriottici che riecheggiano la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, gli attivisti del III% che hanno messo sotto assedio Identity Evropa in Texas, il black bloc che ha…

Anti-fascism comes in all shapes and forms. Whether it be the ultra-patriotic types harking back to the legacy of WWII, the III% who put that Identity Evropa kid in a chokehold in Texas, the black bloc protester who punched out Richard Spencer, the antifa rioters who trashed Milo’s events, the programmers who are letting us…

Austin voters, in a referendum last month, rejected a measure to overturn local regulations of so-called “ride-sharing” services. Although the main backing for the regulations was the legacy taxicab monopolies (which resented having to compete with even proprietary monopolies like Uber and Lyft), the result of leaving them in place has been to promote the…

Ordinarily the word “housing” means a person’s shelter, lodging or place of dwelling. But shortened to “housin” it refers to, according to Urban Dictionary, a show of dominance or authority. And when it comes to the dispute between Airbnb and the Berlin government, it’s clear Airbnb isn’t housin’ anything. The Guardian recently reported that new…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Chad Nelson‘s “Capitalism Smothers the Sharing Economy” read by Mike Gogulski and edited by Nick Ford. FAR’s efforts, like those being carried out by taxicab oligopolies in Germany, Australia, France, the US and elsewhere, show us how quickly so-called private enterprise jumps on any deviation from the current capitalist structure. That’s…

A common liberal or “progressive” criticism of so-called “sharing economy” entities like Uber, Lyft and Airbnb (usually appearing in venues like Salon or Alternet) is that they’re “unregulated.”   This implicitly assumes, of course, that regulations like the taxi medallion system exist for some idealistic purpose of serving the “public welfare” and not simply guaranteeing…

An article at Medium (Tim O’Reilly, “Networks and the Nature of the Firm — What’s the Future of Work?” August 14) describes Uber and Airbnb as “textbook examples” of “the way that networks trump traditional forms of corporate organization, and how they are changing traditional ways of managing that organization.” Um, no. What Uber and…

Russia may have finally caught up with the rest of the world’s governments in cracking down on ridesharing services like Uber. Russia’s Federation of Car Owners (FAR), like any good oligarchy, has complained to Russian state authorities that “rogue” elements such as Uber, Gett, and Yandex represent a “threat to society.” Exactly what kind of…