How the Sharing Economy Is Changing the World | HowStuffWorks NOW

If you’ve ever taken a ride sharing service such as Uber or booked a room with AirBnB, you’ve already participated in the sharing economy.  But you may not realize how sharing has extended to many different parts of our lives already, including health care, utilities and travel.  Chief Content Officer Jason Hoch sat down with Chris Saad, Head of Product for the Developer Platform at Uber and Jeremiah Owyang, CEO and Founder of Crowd Companies at SxSW in Austin Texas recently to discuss what the future of the sharing economy has in store for us.

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How the Sharing Economy is Changing the World | HowStuffWorks NOW

[SnarlaRae]

It's not SHARING it's Entrepreneurship, Working Independent from a CORPORATION....Capitalism at work.

[brandtmccall]

I love the sharing and caring society, money is only a very recent development. Humanity largely has supported itself based on co-operation and caring for self and one another. Hey we are even physiologically designed for helping one another as we produce more dopamine the mood promoting neurotransmitter in our brains when we feel and display compassion for others and ourselves.

[vincentyeo]

aren't what we're having a Sharing Economy on YouTube now?
we share videos and comments here.

[awesomeundoreligion]

I think people are not realizing how dependent we are becoming and will lead to unproductive thinking and creativity

[rogers]

Nothing wrong with sharing/pooling resources, people have done this throughout history among themselves, however if this requires money then "Sharing economy" can be exploitative to their volunteers, or workers and the present system. Many workers have to work several jobs in this economy to make enough to survive. This can cost you more when you have to pay more taxes to support these businesses.
Not relying on your tax money, money from government- funded charity organization and money donation from people is the real sustainable movement: unlike some of these models under "sharing economy" that rent something in exchange for your money is just another profitable form of capitalism in disguise. Do some research on who they took from to start their company before your support. This can cost you when you have to pay more taxes to support these businesses.

[awesomeundoreligion]

We're letting techno do for us too much