What's Mine Is Mine Analysis

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What’s Mine is Yours “Collaborative consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented through the latest technologies and peer to peer marketplaces in ways and on a scale never possible before.”(Botsman, Rogers, 15). There are thousands of examples of collaborative consumption across sectors from peer to peer travel to social lending to co working to service networking. The main theme of the text What’s Mine is Yours is to get everyone around the world to stop over spending, to stop being caught up in consumerism in the world, and to start sharing in order to save our environment as well as to disrupt outdated modes of business and to reinvent not just what we consume but how we consume it. Collaborative consumption is relevant to this Humans Relations course because this human relations course is primarily about the different relationships that humans hold with one another…show more content…
My favorite story was the emergence of throwing away. I find it funny how everyone was okay with sharing cups that were barely washed out or hardly ever cleaned after someone else would use them and then all of a sudden “health cups were created” then there was the emergence of Dixie cups. This story is a perfect example of how things change and evolve over time. It’s almost like nowadays people will create anything for a dollar. They are trying to fix what’s not broken so to speak. But today since so many people are use to having clean Dixie cups before drinking out of the water fountains someone would be able to sue for lots of money if someone didn’t provide clean cups let alone used cups. Furthermore, if I could talk to the author and ask them anything I would ask them what do they propose we do to take bigger steps towards collaborative consumption. I would also ask do they take consistent active part in collaborative

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