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> A Sharing Economy It's not a sharing economy. More like a free market breaking a government controlled model. Schools are monoliths impossible to move. Tea
by aaron695 11y ago
> A Sharing Economy
It's not a sharing economy. More like a free market breaking a government controlled model.
Schools are monoliths impossible to move.
Teachers are agile.
The beauty is is skips around the government and goes straight to teachers, the trick being prices are low enough teachers are also willing to skip the government and pay for it from their own wages.
- mseebach 11y ago"Sharing Economy" is a pretty incomplete term, but to the extend it means anything, it means allowing people to turn otherwise idle or under-utilized assets that exists anyway (cars, spare bedrooms, lesson plans) into productive assets by providing a low-friction market place for them.
- PretzelFisch 11y ago"Sharing Economy" doesn't really apply to lesson plans they are not an object that must be shared it can be duplicated and used concurrently by an infinite number of people.
- mseebach 11y agoAgain, "Sharing Economy" is, at best, an incomplete term, but lesson plans absolutely are assets. The fact that they are easy to duplicate is immaterial to this.
- aaron695 11y agoI'd guess I see your point in that traditionally lesson plans are used once and thrown away. But I'd go as far as saying even if this site started this way now it's not. The lessons are designed to sell, with the top sellers possibly longer teachers.