It always baffles me how the proponents of the share economy do not see its downside: If you do not own what you use, you don't control it. Individual, motorized, traffic has a huge negative impact, that's clear. But how about it enables you to travel whereever you want whenever you want? Owning a house or an apartment might seem unnecessary in our modern society, until the next rent increase or some disturbance in your financial situation (assuming you're not sitting on a huge mortgage).
And why does nobody talk about how we have to pay every fucking minute, regardless what we do, in the share economy? Maybe you spend less money for each activity, compared to owning, but maybe you are just paying more often?
And finally, what about responsibility? If I own nothing, do I ever care about something? Who cares about the gearbox of a rented car? Just have a look at the interior of your average subway train. When the street I live in gets to dirty, why not simply move away?
While I love to be able to rent things that I cannot or don't want to own,
I have the impression that this "share everything" paradigm is actually just a toxic mixture of permanent monetarization and centralised control.
And why does nobody talk about how we have to pay every fucking minute, regardless what we do, in the share economy? Maybe you spend less money for each activity, compared to owning, but maybe you are just paying more often?
And finally, what about responsibility? If I own nothing, do I ever care about something? Who cares about the gearbox of a rented car? Just have a look at the interior of your average subway train. When the street I live in gets to dirty, why not simply move away?
While I love to be able to rent things that I cannot or don't want to own, I have the impression that this "share everything" paradigm is actually just a toxic mixture of permanent monetarization and centralised control.