Notes

In this book the author explores what the notion of a sharing economy means in relation to the mounting global crises.
    While the prevailing understanding of a 'sharing economy' "conflates the noble principle of sharing with for-profit business ventures that cater to a minority of affluent consumers, and mainly in high-income countries", more accurate terms, the author argues, would be crowd-based capitalism, collaborative consumption, the platform economy, access economy, renting economy, or on-demand economy.
    He describes a fundamental restructuring of the economic landscape based on a fundamental re-imagining of the concept of sharing, and calls for the reader to be honest "about our underlying motives and psychological attitudes. Are we really thinking about others and the state of the world as we carry on with our consumer-driven sharing behaviours? Or is it all about ourselves again? Please look very closely at the sharing economy initiatives that have so far arisen throughout the Western world, and ask yourself if they have anything to do with the inner faculties of spiritual awareness that exemplify love, right relationship and the highest intelligence of man." (p.13)

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