And as the fallout from the crash spread, many of those cut loose had been drafted into joining a new American servant class. An epic meltdown of the world financial system had cost millions of people their homes, jobs, and health insurance. It was no accident, Scholz believed, that these services had taken off at the historical moment that they had. Here were a handful of companies thriving by serving as middlemen between people who wanted rides and people who offered them, people who wanted their Ikea furniture assembled and people who came over to install it, people who defrayed their costs by renting out a room and people who stayed there. “As he surveyed the world being remade by Silicon Valley, and especially what was once called the sharing economy, he began to see through the fantasy-speak.
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