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September 10, 2013

"There’s a mind-set that consumers are doing this just to save money. But I think that what’s really compelling about the sharing economy is the variety and expansion of choices that it offers. Instead of being tied to owning one car, I can drive twenty different ones."

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Arun Sundararajan, a professor at N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business and an expert on the sharing economy

via The New Yorker: “Uber Allies”, which notes that “just before the Great Recession, the average American household owned 2.28 cars, and had more television sets than people. But these days a host of new companies are trying to disrupt the paradigm—offering the benefits of consuming without the costs of ownership.”

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