The Sharing Economy, the Peer-to-Peer Economy and the Collaborative Economy
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This is the first full length episode of Utopias, Dystopias and Today's Technology.
Our guest is Somil Gupta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somilguptaai/
The topic is, as the title suggests, about the terms "Sharing Economy", "Peer to Peer Economy" and "Collaborative Economy" what they mean and what this means for us all.
This episode makes a few references:
The podcast, "What's the Buzz--AI in Business" by Andreas Welsch: https://intelligence-briefing.com/
Yanis-Varoufakis's claim that capitalism has been replaced by techno-feudalism, of which this writing is one example: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-market-capitalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2021-06
The book, The Entrepreneurial State, by Mariana Mazzucato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State.
Chapters:
0:00 Theme Song (written, performed, recorded and mixed by Neal Rosenfeld, sang by Jennifer Youngs)
00:35 Welcoming Message
0:57 Introducing Somil Gupta
1:52 What is the peer to peer economy, what is the sharing economy and what is the collaborative economy?
2:46 Historical Framing
5:56 The Peer to Peer Economy
6:45 The Sharing Economy
8:24 The Collaborative Economy
10:13 Incentives for the Collaborative Economy: Democratization
11:36 Solving The World's Problems
12:07 Building Socially Impactful, but Low Profit Solutions
13:38 Using the Tools built by Techno-Feudalists to solve problems in the peer to peer economy: a problem with that?
16:02 Economies of Scale
18:27 The Peer to Peer Business Model: low Volume, high Diversity
19:03 Is the Peer to Peer Economy the Solution to the Problems that arise from Scale
22:28 What comes around, goes around?
25:52 The Urge to do something good
27:17 Decentral and Central Organization
33:30 The Leverage of working with the Big Players (Techno-Feudalists)
34:36 The Shared, Peer to Peer and Collaborative Economies: three legs of a Chair
35:45 Do we have to play with the big Players?
37:03 Efficiency
37:53 Pragmatism over Purity
38:28 Natural Monopolies: Amazon and Google as new States
39:41 Are these new quasi States democ
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