Tag: Precariat

• July 9, 2014

  My doubts about the ‘sharing’ economy

  On Twitter, my friend Dougald Hine brought Susie Cagle’s comic-laced article, ‘The Case Against Sharing: On Access, Scarcity, and Trust,’ to my attention. In this post, Cagle argues that the ‘sharing’ economy is only nominally so. The economic and historical conditions that make possible this ‘sharing’ economy cannot, she thinks, be lost sight of. She writes, ‘The…
• May 11, 2013

  On not owning a couch

  The best thing that fairly well-to-do parents can do today would be to refuse the temptation to buy their children their first couch. A few recent tweets tell something of the story about the American precariat: ‘Student Debt Slows Growth as Young Spend Less’ http://nyti.ms/10xd0uG  (More news about status of American #precariat) ‘The Idled Young Americans’:…