What Is the Sharing Economy?
Sharing puts spare capacity to work; sources differ on the exact definition.
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1.What does the sharing economy mean?
Sharing puts spare capacity to work; sources differ on the exact definition.
2.What does the video say about the claim that sharing means free?
The word sharing sounds like a gift between friends, but a platform deal is often a paid deal.
3.The owner lists a drill at 10 a day and the platform adds a 10 percent fee. What does the renter pay?
Step one: Leo pays 10 plus 1, so 11.
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Sources (4)
- Protecting Consumers in Peer Platform Markets: Exploring the Issues (OECD Digital Economy Papers No. 253, 2016)
- Sharing economy (Wikipedia, englisch)
- Trust in Peer Platform Markets: Consumer Survey Findings (OECD Digital Economy Papers No. 263, 2017)
- Eigene Rechnung: synthetisches Bohrmaschinen-Beispiel (Miete, Gebuehren, Nutzungen)
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