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The lifestyle business prospect is interesting, as mentioned in that Forbes article that hit the front page[1], there is the possibility for many to start makin
by greghinch 14y ago
The lifestyle business prospect is interesting, as mentioned in that Forbes article that hit the front page[1], there is the possibility for many to start making a steady living in the sharing economy. I'm involved with a business working in the arena, and the possibilities are intriguing. Whether or not it becomes a sustainable economy for the longer term is still pretty up in the air
[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and...
- kyllo 14y agoI read that article too. The possibilites are interesting but i dont think sharing your stuff for cash will be a sustainable career option for most, especially if the cost of that stuff keeps going down. Another possibility is that inequality and exponential growth in CEO compensation are due to the fact that most companies are not free marketplaces internally. They are run like little communist dictatorships where compensation is allocated by social/political rank, not by value created. If companies had to pay people according to the actual marginal value of their work, perhaps the inequality wouldn't get quite so severe. But human workers would still have to gradually retrain themselves to perform non-automatable tasks en masse, and the transition period is still going to be painful. That part seems unavoidable.