A brief note that the "sharing economy" has always to some extent depended on straight up lying to make top-down services sound sharey
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"Group-buying" is a real thing. Vendors do give discounts in return for bulk customers. There were clubs based on that kind of negotiation
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But the degree to which you could organize something like that was always, similarly, limited
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I always assumed the "sharing" part of Uber was that they're timeslicing the use of cars
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@alex Uber and Lyft are selling, the drivers are only working a job (w/ no benefits, etc)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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