If you want to start a fight in otherwise polite company, just declare that the “sharing economy” is the new feudalism, or else that it’s the future of work and all the serfs should just get used to it, already.

The “sharing economy” being, of course, a hodgepodge of mostly unrelated but often lumped-together startups, many originating in Silicon Valley, that involve “sharing” things like cars and homes. Think Uber and Airbnb but also Instacart, Postmates, TaskRabbit and many more.

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