Sharing economy

@留學后 微信號liuxue-hou 聽譯Aaron 時間軸Jeff

Every day,it seems like there's a new service poping up that connects people who want things with people who have things.

每天似乎都有新的服務會出現(xiàn)，連接著有需求的人和有供給的人。

If I want to go for a ride,I don't have to worry about buying a car or renting a car.

如果我想出去，我不必去考慮我應該去買車還是去租車。

I can get on my smart phone and in a matter of minutes,I can find someon who's willing to take me there.

我只要打開我的智能手機，幾分鐘后，我就可以找到愿意載我去的人。

If I want a home-cooked meal,with services like Feastly and Eatwith，I'm able to just find people in my community,that are willing to cook a dinner for me.

如果我想吃家常菜，可以通過Feastly或者Eatwith，我便可以找到在社區(qū)里愿意給我做晚餐的人。

They will even let me come to their house and eat it.

他們甚至會邀請我去他們家里用餐。

This is exciting stuff.

這些新事物令人興奮。

But with all of this excitement,people are really trying to figure out what do we do with this?

雖然的確很讓人興奮，很多人在想辦法如何來應對這些新事物。

This is something that we've never thought of before.

這些東西是前所未有的。

Now regulators are stepping in,and trying to figure out well how do we treat these new sevices.

監(jiān)管者正在介入，試圖想辦法來管理這些新的服務。

But the question we really are to be asking ourselves is this any different than the way we've ever done things before?

但我們真正應該考慮的是——如今我們的做法和過去有何本質(zhì)區(qū)別？

Now let's think about that for a minute.

現(xiàn)在讓我們思考一下。

Let's go back to my parents,25 years ago.

我們先回到25年前我的父母的那個年代。

If my parents wanted to go out on the town for the night，they'd have to find someone who is willing to watch me and my siblings.

我過我的父母想晚上去市區(qū)轉(zhuǎn)轉(zhuǎn),他們便必須找一位能夠愿意照看我和我的兄妹的人。

Typically they'd go down the street,find Tori,a high schooler and have her come on over and watch us for the day.

通常，他們會找附近一位叫朵麗的高中生，讓她到家里來照看我們。

But that was really dependant on whether Tori was available and whether Tori wanted to do it.

但是這主要取決于朵麗是否有空以及她是否愿意過來做這件事。

The beautiful thing about the sharing economy is:it's taken this really simple idea of community and it's no longer confined to the neighborhoods we live in and the people we know,but it's been extended to the entire world.

分享經(jīng)濟的魅力在于，它利用了“社群”這個簡單的概念,使得它不再局限于我們所居住的地方以及所認識的人,而是延伸到了全世界。

If I wanna go to New York or LA or Paris，I don't have to worry about finding a friend that;s gonna let me borrow their couch or sleep in their room for the weekend.

如果我想去紐約、洛杉磯或者巴黎，我不必去擔心能否找到一個能提供沙發(fā)或房間的小伙伴。

In a matter of minutes,I can get on the Internet and have hundreds of rooms and couches available to me.

只需要幾分鐘，我就可以在網(wǎng)上找到成百上千個可供選擇的房間和沙發(fā)。

This has huge potential for consumers and producers.

這對于消費者和生產(chǎn)者都有著巨大的潛力。

Unfortunately,all of these potential benefits are at risk and the sharing economy may actually be stopped in its tracks.

不幸的是，以上這些潛在的好處正面臨危險,分享經(jīng)濟可能會被扼殺在搖籃里。

Old,outmoded forms of regulation are being used to regulate these new sharing economy firms and they're ultimately stifling their continued growth and development.

陳舊、過時的管制措施正在被用來管理新興的分享經(jīng)濟上,這些管制措施最終會抑制整個分享經(jīng)濟產(chǎn)業(yè)的發(fā)展和進步。

But the problem is that the sharing economy firms alleviate the need for these regulations in the 1st place.

問題點在于，分享經(jīng)濟中的企業(yè)本身就是在解決那些以前所需管制的問題。

The two party rating system that Uber,and Feastly,and Airbnb,and most of these firms all employ is a way to overcome the informational problems that regulations were put in place to solve in the 1st place.

Uber、Feastly以及Airbnb等公司所使用的雙方打分系統(tǒng)正是用來解決信息不對稱的難題，而正是這難題才在以前催生了管制。

If I have had a bad experience with a driver,I give them a bad rating.

如果我對所乘車的司機不滿，我就會給他差評。

If a driver has a bad experience with me,he gives me a bad rating.

如果司機對我這乘客不滿，他也會給我差評。

So,people with the bad ratings,no one would want to trade,and borrow,and buy,and sell from them.

差評多的人，就沒人愿意和他做交易。

And the people with the good ratings will get all of the business.

而好評多的人則會有很多生意。

At the end of the day,it pushes everyone to be the best version of themselves as they can,to stay in the market，without the need for regulations in the first place.

這就促使每個人都盡可能地完善自己的服務，以便于在市場中站住腳。這就從根本上去除了管制的必要。

So the ultimate question here is will polivy makers evolve and adapt with all of these new firms coming in and the sharing economy growing and blossoming as it has?

所以最終的問題是——政策制定者能否隨著新事物的發(fā)展而進步，讓分享經(jīng)濟繼續(xù)繁榮下去？

Or will they apply yesterday's regulation,and yesterday's theory to today's economy and all of the benefits that it has for consumers and producers?

亦或者是他們?nèi)匀挥眠^去的管制措施來對待當今的經(jīng)濟以及分享經(jīng)濟所帶來的對消費者或生產(chǎn)者的好處？

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