I believe I covered most of your complaint with the "if you have children..." part. I personally spent more time at the office at times so their Mom could be a

I believe I covered most of your complaint with the "if you have children..." part. I personally spent more time at the office at times so their Mom could be a full time Mom. Then at other times, I didn't. I don't think economics has any hope of covering anything like joy. Microeconomics can show little sociological vignettes of the ... "Freakonomics" variety. Utility is a roughly ... shadow variable which is inferred to explain certain things. There's no real agreement on whether or not it's even ordinal. Econ is fascinating, but it's a crippled discipline relative to many other more liberal arts and even sociology proper. But back to "the sharing economy" - how is this not substituting electronic means to replace (roughly) telephone-based systems like hotels/motels or taxi service? My personal heresy is that monetary policy has been abused ( towards deflation ) , and that this is what is driving this substitution. In the US, there's been a 2% growth target and we've failed to meet even that. http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/3212.html http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/3212.html Nobody seems to actually understand inflation.