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Well, in the context of the thesis that companies like Uber are allowing people to partly convert consumption assets into production ones, to an economist it st
by hga 11y ago
Well, in the context of the thesis that companies like Uber are allowing people to partly convert consumption assets into production ones, to an economist it strikes me as not unreasonable he'd describe it as both "amazing" and an innovation.
That's certainly a very interesting concept, and new in the modern era, I think. Closest I can think of right now is selling surplus solar power your home is generating back to the utility, a somewhat different thing.
- venomsnake 11y agoYou know about the many self thought programmers that learned on their own PC-s ... since the late 70s.
- hga 11y agoI don't think education is this sort of consumption or production, in fact, when did people start buying PCs more for consumption? E.g. games and telecom/the Internet? Comparable might be buying more PC that you need, and selling the extra cycles. There have been for some time schemes that do that for non-profit uses, e.g. math (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...) and science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home), I now notice a huge list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_... But I think I would have heard of any "make money at home!" schemes....