The ripple effects of the sharing economy

The sharing economy is a disaster! Or so says Business Insider which takes the opposite view to what Forum and the rest of the sustainability world sees as a good thing - the sharing economy - and warns of the 'catastrophic ripple effects' on the economy while wondering 'what's to blame?'. The tweet that drew my attention to this from Cameron Tomkinwise says it all really: "spectacular example of right research, wrong ideology-based conclusions". But it's worth asking why sustainability experts such as David, and a business magazine like this, have such contradictory views. read more