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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Groupon was... not that. It wasn't a true "bulk discount", it was a promotional discount - often to below cost
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It scaled up the way true group buying didn't because it mostly was funded by venture capital giving vendors big up front payments
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