> The city block you're living on probably only needs one stand mixer, one waffle iron, one clothes iron. You could all just share one of these rarely-used appl

> The city block you're living on probably only needs one stand mixer, one waffle iron, one clothes iron. You could all just share one of these rarely-used appliances between you. Why don't you? Probably because they can't be bothered with the small logistics of a sharing system. But it isn't totally unheard of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system If not for some sense of selflessness, such systems should at the least motivate the more frugally-minded people: only borrowing or renting rarely used appliances, offering and getting services from each other with minimal bureaucracy, and optionally operating within a sort of currency system that isn't taxable.