nah i wouldn't go that far, banking employees and shareholders of recapitalized companies in 2007/2008 privatized gains and socialized losses when they were mostly bailed out with taxpayer money/federal reserve credibility instead of going under, but uber/airbnb/aws are pure efficiency plays. they increase the utilization of (what used to be) private cars, real estate, and servers respectively. there are trade offs between renting and buying, and we are moving more towards a rental economy mostly because it's more efficient in many cases to just rent what you need when you need it (opex) rather than spending big on a depreciating asset (capex)