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Hasn't the sharing economy already reached the tipping point? The ideas in the piece clearly aren't new for most of us on HackerNews, but I would contend they'
by muzz 13y ago
Hasn't the sharing economy already reached the tipping point?
The ideas in the piece clearly aren't new for most of us on HackerNews, but I would contend they're not really new for many in the general public either.
There have been many mainstream news stories about the sharing economy. And even battles in big cities (SF, NY) over regulation. I would've guessed that this was already on many people's radar.
- rjurney 13y agoFriedman only writes things that are obviously true, or that most people would agree with.
- graeme 13y agoYou'd be surprised. About half the people I talk to under 25 haven't heard of Airbnb yet. This usually comes up when I tell them what Ycombinator is. "Have you heard of Dropbox? Airbnb? Reddit?" Usually one of those three works, but a surprising amount of people don't know what either of the first two are. I even talk to a lot of people who don't know what Reddit is. They're all obviously mainstream, just not as mainstream as, say, staying in a hotel.
- stephengillie 13y agoI was having dinner with some college friends recently who hadn't heard of Google's self-driving car. O_o