The sharing economy
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Sharing economy is when you share or lend your property to other people so they can benefit from it, and in return you get paid for it. In this outline we’re going to look at three different texts which have different views on the sharing economy.
According to the first text “The sharing economy: a money-making space made for startups”, the author, Suzanne Bearne talks with the entrepreneur, Stephany, who quite likes the sharing economy. He believes that the sharing economy contributes to the creation of social capital, as it allows for example, one person to settle in a place that is first and foremost much cheaper than a hotel. and thereupon a place that will contribute to social value, such as a unique experience.
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In the article “Learning the wonders of the sharing economy in trip to Denver” the author Catharine Hamm engage the reader by starting off with the phrase, “Meet my friends…”. This phrase has the effect of catching the readers ' attention, because the author is talking directly to them, and obviously the readers want to read on, as they have been involved. This also gives Catharine Hamm the preparation to state her arguments.
Catharine Hamm uses her personal experience to convince us that the sharing economy helps to enrich our travel experiences. She states this quote about her trip to Denver “I met the nicest people, ate and slept well, found great office space, took a fun tour and learned a lot about my host city. ” She uses many adjectives that are positive, such as, nicest, well, great and fun. It gives the reader a positive image of the concept, and the reader is made to feel excitement and also wants to experience it. In addition, it also makes her look reliable since she herself has experience
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On one hand, there are people like Mary Dejevsky who has written the article “Uber and the “sharing economy” are leaps into the past, not the future”, that believes the sharing economy is unfair, and it’s not a positive trend, since it only benefits certain groups in society. And that especially the poor and the elderly miss out, as they primarily don’t have the technology, which allows them to access it. Personally, I understand the author 's frustration, but I must admit that I don’t agree with him. Now that the opportunity for the sharing economy is available, and people have the chance to pay less and get an experience, they should definitely exploit it. But the truth is also, it 's actually sad that it 's not everyone who gets access to it, but just because there are some people in society who will not benefit from it, that should not affect everyone
For example, in the middle of the story, when Antonia is talking to Mrs. Bartoli about Jazz, she says, “I know, it’s hard to get past her looks, but deep down, she’s a really good person.”(169). This sentence shows that Antonia has gotten to know Jazz, and has realized that her outside might be different, but on the inside, she is a good person. Antonia did not judge a book by it's cover. Also, in the end of the book, Antonia thinks, “Expression meant everything to Jazz, and Jazz's music was the way she expressed the person she was inside, passionate, strong, joyful. Whenever I was with her, she made me feel that way.
Among the ones she uses are appealing to a sense of humour, making herself relatable, and also making the reader feel angry with
Her sentences are short and direct. She keeps the speech easy to understand, by not using big words, and phrases she uses simple phrases. An example of a simple phrase that she uses is, “This is the story of this country.” She could have used
such as her use of detailed imagery when describing how she resembled a wriggling beetle to put a comical image in the reader's mind. Her use of positive diction to make light of her serious situation, and her different uses of tone, help educate her readers about the difficulties of living with a
She doesn’t let negativity stop her from being great. Also, she is known for her good looks and clothing she wears. She was replaced by Megyn Kelly on the Today Show after she had been at the network for 10 years. She came from a poor background but, made it out and is very
She adds a great deal of emotion and powerful words. She uses repetition to emphasise her
Society is a dangerous and ruthless beast. A person’s wish to belong in society can ultimately be their demise to not only their financial stability but as well as their social status which is ironic, for the actions they take to belong only further separate them from society. These actions are particularly common amongst poor folks as they wish to be a part of society, but their poor financial decisions to spend all their earnings on exquisite items only drags them further away from society’s acceptance. In Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Reading, “The Logic of Stupid Poor People”, She describes her life as an African-American child born into a poor family who were able to manage their funds wisely and live comfortably while families similar to her’s, but to only manage to dig themselves into deep and unforgiving caverns of financial debt. I agree, for I have witnessed many cases of poverty stricken people drag themselves further into financial debt all for useless status symbols.
Anne is very conscious of her word choice and uses words and sentences with very strong connotations
She achieves this by using descriptive words. For example, when she talks about the camps, she says, “...a knot of anger tightened in my breast. What was I doing behind a fence, like a criminal? If there were accusations to be made, why hadn’t I been given a fair trial? Maybe I wasn’t considered an American anymore.
She takes everything in stride no matter the circumstance and is always positive.
Airbnb was established in 2008 in San Francisco, California, by its founders Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk, who were not able to find any free rooms in a hotel while attending a conference. As a consequence of that, the idea to offer private rooms online emerged, where clients could book them easily via their smartphone, tablet or computer. ‘On one side the platform enables people to list their available space and earn extra income in the form of rent. On the other, Airbnb enables travelers to book unique home stays from local hosts, saving them money and giving them a chance to interact with locals. Catering to the on-demand travel industry, Airbnb is present in over 190 countries across the
The offers of accommodations via Airbnb are currently available in 192 Countries and in over 34,000 cities worldwide (O 'Toole, 2014). The valuation of Airbnb, the home-rental platform, is worth of $10 billion after it raised $450 million from private investment firm TPG in 2014 (Spector, Macmillan & Rusli, 2014). The type of business of Airbnb can be categorized to social networking service which focuses on the accommodation-rental service. The concept of Airbnb is actually a sharing economy which enables the customers to become the micro-entrepreneurs at the same time. Airbnb aims at not only providing the accommodation opportunities but also the experiences for people to interact with others all around the world and get to know how the local people live in a certain city and have some culture exchange experiences with international guests and hosts.
Having a value of over $10 billion, Airbnb “exceeds that of well-established global hotel chains like Hyatt” (Hospitality Net). This proves that this online service is significantly surpassing these stable hotel chains that have been competing in the industry for over 60 years. Along with this, a recent report by HVS Consulting & Valuation found that “hotels lose approximately $450 million in direct revenues per year to AirBnb” (Orourke). Although Marriott International has been performing with a 45% increase in revenues from 2012 to 2016, Airbnb has definitely had an impact on the consumer perspective of traditional hotel rooms. In addition to this, hotels also lose over $108 million of food and beverage revenues as a result of guests not spending their money at the hotel’s restaurant.
Currently people live in a very competitive and growing technology thus they are doing whatever they can to ensure they cop up with this advancing technology. The difficulty of the social implication of car technology is multiplied by complete lack of stability in this field. Over the years, there has been a huge advancement in car technology, from the days when people used diesel operated engines to today when we have hybrid cars fitted with two engines that uses gasoline and another which is electric. This growth has impacted the society in various ways. Car technology is one of the
== = == Brian Uzzi's paper is an empirical paper that, in many ways, can be seen as providing empirical support for and refining the essential embeddedness thesis made by Granovetter (1985) in Economic action and social structure: The Problem of embeddedness.