Aw: RE: Re: [projectvrm] Tim Friedman's column

["Graham Reginald Hill" < >]

Hi Crosbie

 

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't see that. Phil's comment didn't have an explanatory trail of preceeding comments that I would have read through before making my own comment. If I had see that, it would have changed who I dressed my comment to without materially changing the contents.

 

Hi Phil.

 

Apologies if I inadvertently targeted you with a comment intended for someone else.

 

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Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Juli 2014 um 08:55 Uhr
Von: "Crosbie Fitch" < >
An: "ProjectVRM list" < >
Betreff: RE: Re: [projectvrm] Tim Friedman's column

Doctor Graham, it seems as if you may not have noticed that Phil was responding to "a comment on the NYT article by 'SJ' of Wash DC" posted by Brian (21/7 @ 18:22).

 

Admitedly, there wasn't much in the way of quotation indication - just a single '>'.

 

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From: Graham Reginald Hill [mailto: ]
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Subject: Aw: Re: [projectvrm] Tim Friedman's column
 

 

Hi Phil

 

It's funny, but I don't see any of the implied malaise in society that AirBnB seems to sum up for you. Times change and our thinking must keep up with the changes or we risk being rendered obsolete.

 

I am not a big believer in Rachel Botsman's Collaborative Consumption that underlies a lot of the receent developments in the sharing society. I prefer to buy and own my own things and am not particularly keen on sharing them with others, whether I am paid for doing so or not. But I also recognise that others are more than happy to do so, whether on societally moral grounds or more desperate financial ones. 

 

I am however a big believer in equality. Not the mindless affirmative action kind of equality that causes so much moral outrage, but the freedom to be all that you can be type that comes with full emancipation. Did it never occur to you that half of the family may want more out of life than the intellectual and aspirational vacuousness of being stuck working in the home. And that a second income may be a source of freedom that being dependant on the other half can never provide. 

 

It is frankly ludicrous to equate renting out your home, car or whatnot with a rather simplistic theory about a growing sense of economic despair. All the evidence suggests that people have changed since the onset of the recent recesssion. AirBnB provides a multi-sided market platform that enables sellers and buyers to more easily meet.  A recent stufy of 5,000 AirBnB listings in San Francisco found that 2/3 of them were entire apartments or houses that were not going to be shared at all. AirBnB simply provided a better marketplace to rent out what was probably going to be rented out somewhere else anyway. 

 

Best regards from Cologne, Graham
 

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