Some words on "SHARING" from Bill Maher

Our "Greed is Good" world is where outrageous income inequality is accepted, even by the people getting fucked by it. People should be protesting on the streets, or in unions, or at least in the voting booth, but are not. As usual Americans find it easier to adapt. That's how we got what economists call the "sharing" economy. We used to have stores that provided jobs. Then commerce went on line. Now we just have apps. You're supposed to think it's cool to drive a UBER to your AIRBNB to the assignment you found on TaskRabbit. But isn't this "sharing" economy a desperate economy?

How did America spend 60 years fighting Communism and up in a barter economy on Craig's List? We did it by worshipping greed…from replacing people with robots, to exploiting interns, from the slave labor we use overseas to the music everybody steals at home — we've all become too good at scheming, cheating, inventing, raiding, gouging and just plain fucking each other, that we woke up one day with this sharing economy. The one thing we're not sharing is the profits. Somehow they forgot to create an app for that.

BILL MAHER, August 21, 2015, "Real Time"