The document discusses the rise of the sharing economy. It notes that sharing services now reach 40,000 people per day across 30,000 cities and 192 countries. The sharing economy has grown due to factors like the recession, excess waste and unused goods, information overload, and a new generation that values sustainability and community over consumerism. Examples mentioned include crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, local marketplaces like Etsy, and communities formed around sharing items, skills and physical spaces. The document argues this shift represents more than a fad and will continue transforming economic and social systems.
20. 52%
of Americans have rented, borrowed, or
leased the kinds of items that people
usually own in the past two years.
Source: Study Sunrun - Feb 2013
21. 83%
said they would share these items if they
"could do so easily."
Source: Study Sunrun - Feb 2013
22. "Weâve always been in a culture where
more is more, and suddenly weâre in a
culture where less is a better quality of
life. Itâs pretty revolutionary."
Bill Stewart, VP of customer care at Sunrun
54. 1. Return to local markets: Etsy
THE CRAFTSMAN LIVES AGAIN ON ETSY
Human to human relationship between
the person who is making it and the
person who is buying it.
3 years
200,000 sellers
1 Million registered users
55. 1. Return to local markets: Etsy
FARMSTAND
There are more than 5,750 local
farmers markets versus 1,700 in 1994.
82. âthis stuff ended up
running my life,
the things I consumed
ended up consuming meâ
Photo Credit: Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with-less-a-lot-less.html
Graham
Hill
83. You are not the clothes you
wear, the contents of your
wallet, or the car you drive.
84. âAdvertising has us chasing cars
and clothes, working jobs we hate
so we can buy shit we don't needâ
Rachel Botsman, in âWhatâs mine is yoursâ
114. "by the end of this decade, power and
influence will shift largely to those
people with the best reputations and
trust networks, from people with money
and nominal power"
Craig Newmark
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FOUNDER, LEWEB
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Distorted investment priorities, as wealth gets directed into what will earn the largest profit and not into what most people really need (so public health, public education, and even dikes for periodically swollen rivers receive little attention);Worsening exploitation of workers, since the harder, faster, and longer people workâjust as the less they get paidâthe more profit is earned by their employer (with this incentive and driven by the competition, employers are forever finding new ways to intensify exploitation);Overproduction of goods, since workers as a class are never paid enough to buy back, in their role as consumers, the ever growing amount of goods that they produce (in the era of automation, computerization and robotization, the gap between what workers produceâand can produceâand what their low wage allows them to consume has increased enormously);Unused industrial capacity (the mountain of unsold goods has resulted in a large percentage of machinery of all kinds lying idle, while many pressing needsâbut needs that the people who have them can't pay forâgo unmet);Growing unemployment (machines and raw materials are available, but using them to satisfy the needs of the people who don't have the money to pay for what could be made would not make profits for those who own the machines and raw materialsâand in a market economy profits are what matters);Growing social and economic inequality (the rich get richer and everyone else gets poorer, many absolutely and the rest in relation to the rapidly growing wealth of the rich);The same market experiences develop a set of anti-social attitudes and emotions (people become egotistical, concerned only with themselves. "Me first", "anything for money", "winning in competition no matter what the human costs" become what drives them in all areas of life. They also become very anxious and economically insecure, afraid of losing their job, their home, their sale, etc.; and they worry about money all the time. In this situation, feelings as well as ideas of cooperation and mutual concern are seriously weakened, where they don't disappear altogether, for in a market economy it is against one's personal interest to cooperate with others);Worsening ecological degradation (since any effort to improve the quality of the air and of the water costs the owners of industry money and reduces profits, our natural home becomes increasingly unlivable);
An individual with no specialized skills should be able to make an average of $41,000 per year in the SERead more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/21/will-you-leave-your-job-to-join-the-sharing-economy/#eBwU2PvBIYBJEa57.99Sabrina Hernandez, 23, used to work at Starbucks, but she isnât going back after averaging $1,200 a month this fall hosting strangersâ dogs in her apartment through website DogVacay. âItâs so much more rewarding than working in a customer-service setting.âAirbnb commissioned a study of its economic impact on San Francisco last year and found a âspillover effect.â Because an Airbnb rental tends to be cheaper than a hotel, people stay longer and spent $1,100 in the city, compared with $840 for hotel guests; 14% of their customers said they would not have visited the city at all without Airbnb.Today, City CarShare members save an average of more than $8,000 per year compared with the costs of private car ownership. Studies have shown, for example, that for every reduction of 15,000 owned cars, a city keeps $127 million in the local economy as people are able to get what they need within a smaller geographic area.