Sharing the economy

Most of the ideas for new blogs come randomly, I see something and I’m like; this is interesting for a blog! However, some of them come from blogs other people write about, which is the case today. I was looking how everyone was doing for a course which I’m taking and I saw a post from Isaac Nelson, link will be down below. He wrote about the sharing economy. Something in which I was interested before, but shoved to somewhere back in my mind by the unbelievable pace of college. I was reading his blog on my smartphone, which unfortunately has a magically broken screen, but that is another story for another day. As I turned my screen off the cracks became more visible and I thought of something my geography teacher once told us; products are not made to last.
                Back then, we were talking about the gigantic amount of waste in the oceans, and how that could have happened. He raised the concern that most of the products can be made to last a lifetime and the only reason for getting rid of equipment should be technological change. Unfortunately, this is impossible, companies make products which are not supposed to last. They are supposed to break down before they become outdated, therefore we will always buy a new product before it should be necessary.
                However, there may be hope! In the form of the sharing economy. By now, probably all of you have heard about Uber, AirBNB, Lyft or Craigslist. All part of a growing trend, sharing what you have for a, almost always lower, fee. One of them has a cheap place to stay, the other makes some extra money by letting you sleep in a small apartment they never use. We are starting to use the objects we possess to its fullest, totally opposite from the other trend mentioned above.

                Are consumers really turning around the sort of economy we have? Or is it just a breeze of fresh air which will soon disappear? In my opinion it is the first, the sharing economy is just too big to be ignored as a change in the economic landscape. However, we are still far away. Oil waste is declining in the ocean, but the pollution caused by general littering is still increasing. Almost all companies are just trying to sell as much as they can on black Friday, giving huge discounts which just stimulates the production economy. Buy, buy and buy some more, most likely you’ll need it because we still make products which break to soon. But there is light on the end of the tunnel, younger people share, share and share some more. They have taught us to turn the world around. Unfortunately, they can’t let go of what they’ve learned in the past and adapt to the new world. Hopefully the change will go faster than the destruction of the earth. 


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