Shared Economy Business : Fixing Its “Genetic Disorder”

• Main Authors: Mack, Vincent Zhi Wei, Lim, Christopher Hang-Kwang
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Country and Region Studies; South Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89178; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44805
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The shared economy has not lived up to its presupposition of sharing. Instead, shared economy business (SEB) has generated at least three distinct types of garbage – physical, environmental, and moral. Moreover, it also promotes a social sickness of privatising profits and socialising problems in th...