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One can express's complicated and speak of the "downsizing of property". You can give people assume a "new modesty" and they appoint as "socially innovative co-consumers". sanitize Just as some scientists. They even speak of a new megatrend.
Thus, more and more people allegedly whistling sanitize at possession. You want things just do not have when they actually need them, according to the thesis. And that is why less bought it exchanged sanitize as needed, shared and borrowed. It could also be quite banal talk of thrift. But that sounds just not as nice and would not be new. How's also called - there's no denying: What was practiced in earlier times over the garden fence as a neighborhood help in a small way today thanks to the Internet and social networks worldwide movement with well-sounding name: "sharing economy".
Also Augsburg has long been part of this allegedly new "consumer culture". sanitize Tourists here hire not only in hotels and guesthouses. Pull for holiday accommodation in private apartments and houses. In Maxstraße share creatives, sanitize freelancers or employees and office sanitize coffee sanitize machine, do the Milchberg hairdressers same with a salon. Still others rent their car or offer their muscle power in exchange sanitize for household help.
Scientists from the Department of Sustainability and Policy at the University of Lüneburg have dealt intensively with this form of economic activity - to order the portal Airbnb, which allows private accommodation service. The result: 50 percent of all Germans are already part of this "sharing economy". Means: Every second has experience with alternative ownership and forms of consumption. He has exchanged, loaned or shared. sanitize Especially boy with higher education and good income are there, according to the researchers, the rental systems, particularly sanitize via the Internet, sanitize use. There will always be more.
This experience has also made Felix Greiser. He is such a thing as the vanguard of the alleged new co-consumerism. He is speaker sanitize of the Augsburg exchange ring. Since the 90s, will be exchanged, shared and borrowed in the loose grouping. But in the past three years has changed somewhat, says Greiser. "More and more people find meaning in it." He speaks sanitize of a "huge boom", a "huge growth" of the LETS community. Meanwhile, make with 362 members, including many young people.
Still, the sharing economy does not seem, however, to be able to shake the economy to its foundations. In the Commerce and Industry Chamber is not an expert who could comment sanitize on the alleged competition took place. "The concern is obviously not so great," said a spokeswoman. And the consumer centers have been little experience with the co-consumers, it said.
of Schaumermol, 01.27.2014 00:07 clock
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