Paul Free (14 Ⓐ, europe)Jun 6, 2017

#commons is the answer to #capitalism which deviding us in economic categories.
It follows a different logic and comes through culture with shifting minds.

- it's sharing instead of traiding
- it's caring instead of profit
- it's what can I do, instead of what can I get
- it's what do we need, instead of what do I want

'we can't solve problems with the same pattern we've created them'

- it's #mastodon and #gnusocial instead of twitter

transform #capitalism
make #commons

Show threadMarcin CieślakJun 6, 2017
@paulfree14 unfortunately #sharing #economy has been grabbed already by something else. Some strange implant of communism onto capitalistic society, potentially bringing wrongs of both systems together.
Show threadHisham
@paulfree14 @saper I can't see the communism in it, really (other than the precariousness, but that was never exclusive to it, see capitalist Latin America). Most of the Uber-like economy sounds way more like a good old pyramid scheme to me.
Jun 8, 2017 at 2:36pmTusky
Show threadPaul Free (14 Ⓐ, europe)Jun 8, 2017
@saper @hisham_hm
well ueber has as much to do with sharing then renting cars.
ueber is trading service for money and catched the trend of #sharingeconomy.
...I just see a clever marketing strategy created this narrative of 'cool sharing ueber'
Show threadMarcin CieślakJun 8, 2017
@hisham_hm @paulfree14 I mentioned two reasons: obvious early signals of lack of "ownership" among riders; reliance on somewhat working bureaucracy to fix stuff: many problems reported left unsolved for a while for example. I only don't see chronic lack of efficiency out of my favorite features of so-called real socialism
Show threadSee: @[email protected]Jun 12, 2017
@saper @paulfree14 @hisham_hm Somewhat related: Took a cab to a friend's house (because Uber quoted me a high price) and it was hot, cab was slightly dirty, he didn't use A/C. He muttered complaints about other drivers and then proposed to leave us off a few hundred feet (across a few roads) from the door.
Took an uber back and it was like riding in a limo. Clean, A/C, friendly.
Neoliberalism is vicious but it works. Until we recognize that we are losing.