Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Successful Tool Lending Libraries Force Us to Rethink What the Public Is Willing to Share — Yves Smith

 Coincidentally, I am in the process of setting up a tool library as well as research library for a community to encourage sharing. 

Sharing is a cultural thing. It used to be common in the US, but American culture has since become much more individualistic of late. We need to jettison the culture based on "it's every man for himself," and get back to 'We're all in this together."

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Successful Tool Lending Libraries Force Us to Rethink What the Public Is Willing to Share
Yves Smith

4 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Borrowing your neighbours tools and never quite getting around to returning them, sure is a cultural thing in Canada!

Joe said...

Ever have a neighbor borrow your shit and keep it so long, you had to borrow it back?

Matt Franko said...

“Survival of the fittest!”

Peter Pan said...

Ever have a neighbor borrow your shit and keep it so long, you had to borrow it back?

That neighbour was me.