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I hate my drill, it's cheap and underpowered. But. I know right where it is, and I can get it in 30 seconds, drill a hole in a couple of minutes, and put the d
by cmsj 11y ago
I hate my drill, it's cheap and underpowered.
But. I know right where it is, and I can get it in 30 seconds, drill a hole in a couple of minutes, and put the drill back in its cupboard.
It was proportionately cheap enough that I don't remember or care how much it cost, and I'm not incentivised to care that it's a waste of resources for me to own a drill.
The "sharing economy" seems like something that should be a response to adverse market conditions - e.g. huge taxes on mass produced goods, high prices due to supply shortages, low affordability due to macro-economic disasters, etc.
It's not something that seems likely to work in a status quo where such things are cheap and easily available.
Things like cars seem like a much better opportunity, given their proportionately higher cost. Once the roads are stuffed with huge fleets of on-demand vehicles, I can see now owning a car (also by then my kids will be old enough that we won't need to keep a huge array of infrastructure in the car ;)