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The Sharing Economy
- nchuhoai 15y agoDead on. I'm excited to see more services in the sharing economy. ebay and airbnb is just the beginning ...
- cmcewen 15y agoI agree with the author in that this "Sharing Economy" will play an ever-increasing role in our economic future, but I think her conclusion that it requires government support to flourish is incorrect. None of the innovative services she mentions benefited from a large government loan or huge tax breaks. I would argue that some services like Kickstarter are prevented from reaching their full potential because of government laws regarding crowdfunding. In order to reach its full potential, government should let the "group of people with shared needs and a common vision" she describes pursue that vision with as few hoops to jump through as possible, even if those people don't happen to be citizens of the United States.
- Hyena 15y agoThis presumes that the kickstarters have the real resources necessary. The fact that a lot of people agree with your vision does not ipso facto create the resources necessary to pursue it.
- cmcewen 15y agoWhat resources are missing? The companies she mentioned all found enough to be successful. The author just claims that we need "more engagement" from government without saying what problem that would solve.
- karamazov 15y agoI don't think any of those companies was started with the intention of becoming a nonprofit sustainably tying together the community, as this article seems to claim. This isn't the emergence of a sharing economy - that makes it sound like we're moving from capitalism to communism. What we're seeing is companies utilizing the Internet to bring together markets that would have been impossible to organize profitably 20 years ago (try running eBay as a mail-order or phone based system).
- vladsanchez 15y agoGoogle: the Mesh by Lisa Gansky