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Extending the argument, why do I own underwear? Surely it would be cheaper to share. If you assume I'm asleep half the time, we could burn millions of gallons
by VLM 10y ago
Extending the argument, why do I own underwear? Surely it would be cheaper to share. If you assume I'm asleep half the time, we could burn millions of gallons of jet fuel to ship my underwear to the eastern hemisphere where someone else could wear it while I'm sleeping and vice versa. This is not a new business concept, in Japan there are vending machines for somewhat used womens underwear so not to be sexist my socks and briefs should be quite profitable when rented in Bulgaria while I am asleep. This is a billion dollar idea, underwear is a billion dollar business and depending on sleep cycles we could easily bite a 1/3 to 1/4 chunk out of the worlds underwear budget, perhaps more.
Another good argument is I only use my snow shovel a couple times per year. Why just yesterday I shoveled my front walk way. This is good whole body exercise for healthy people under age 80 or so. Obviously, because there are 8760 hours in a year and I only hold in my hands, my snow shovel, perhaps 5 hours per year total, 8760/5=1752 a shared snow shovel should be able to service 1752 households per year at 5 hours per house-year. I live in a burb with perhaps 175k households, so our entire burb "obviously" only needs to own about 100 snow shovels. After all snow shovels are expensive to buy, annoying to store, tiresome to maintain by spraying with silicone, and technology means all we need is an app and a future middleman feeling entitled to become a billionaire.
A final argument is the dreaded turkey pan. Once a year I use this giant turkey pan to roast a turkey. In theory 364 people should be able to share my turkey pan with me. Yet... And how about Christmas decorations, I only have mine up for a month or so out of the year, surely there would be no problem sharing my christmas decorations with 12 other families, think of the cost and space savings! If I were going for comedy I would point out my wife and I only have sex a couple minutes per day so there's an obvious theoretical savings there, and there's already popular phone apps such as tindr and grindr to coordinate such activities. Finally any genealogist knows that in the old days a womans uterus was in full operation like 10-15 times per lifetime but under current medical conditions and dismal economic conditions, "two or so children per woman, plus or minus one" is about average. Surely some sort of sharing economy could cut down on the biological costs of maintaining all those mostly inoperative uteruseses, or uterii or whatever. Can't get uterine cancer if you get rid of your personal uterus and join the uterine sharing economy via the "utr" phone app. Hmm that one looks roomy, swipe right swipe right!
"Timeshares" have a certain reputation, a taint to them, which the "sharing economy" soon will have.