Why the term 'sharing economy' needs to die

Nothing is being shared when you hire a cleaner to tidy your house or a car to drive you to work, even if you use an app to do it

The "sharing economy" is a meaningless term that was only coined in the first place because of the tech industry's desire to pretend everything it does is new and groundbreaking.

Now, almost a decade after it started seeing use, it's worse than simply being meaningless: it's actively obfuscatory, lumping together a hugely disparate bunch of companies, many of which push the definition to its limits, and the biggest examples of which have nothing to do with "sharing" at all.