Biniyam Benti 23 Nov. 2016 Brandon Feres ENG 121 Argumentative Essay Sharing Economy Does the sharing economy do any good? Currently there is a lot of ways people can get involved in utilizing their property in different ways one of them is sharing economy. This life style lets people share resources, services and properties with others and get incentives, instead of money or exchange. In the previous, people do not have enough option to share their properties. Since the evolvement of sharing economy, which mainly relies on technology a traditional way of business has been suffering. This collaborative economy is not only playing a role in economy as a means of income, but also helped people around the world to socialize and protect …show more content…
Those websites allow people with internet access to shop and sell their used items online from every corner of the world. When sellers sell their pre-owned items online both sides are beneficiary, the seller will get some value for the item they sell and the buyers usually get the item for lesser cost. The sharing economy also involves the online job and employee matching, which usually work on both ways with the employers posting the kind of job and service they want and the employee offer their service for …show more content…
The sharing economy has gained trust through the years and without a doubt, it has been adopted globally. As for its weaknesses, perhaps, there is still a solution. One thing is clear, though. There is no stopping change and technology will continue to evolve. What the people need to do is to study the advantage and disadvantage of the sharing economy and decide where and when to apply it. In time, things will be better for the people and the economy. As of today though people all over the world are experiencing and benefiting from the sharing economy which most of us have heard and may be even part of
While many suggest that music piracy is destroying the music industry, others claim that it is actually helping. On average, people who pirate music “legitimately purchase 30 percent more music than non-P2P (Peer to peer) users.” This is what Betsy Issacson claims (Issacson). Most of this music is copied from friends and families that bought it from a music store. In 18-29 year olds, this is where they get about 30% of their music from.
Social Media is an economic system as well. But, Ford capitalized on a completely different way of influencing the people to target them as their initial agents, by shaping it into a ‘Gift Economy’.
In the years of 18151860, the Market Revolution was underway, as was the Second Great
This means that by using Bitcoins, users are contributing to the network and sharing the responsibility of authorizing transactions. This sharing of work significantly reduces transaction costs, making them negligible.
How Bitcoin is the beginning of a new internet? Bitcoin has been compared to the internet of the early 90’s by many people in that it has the potential to become a huge global peer to peer payment system, allowing people to exchange currency value over the internet without a 3rd party bank. Much like the internet in its infancy was the basis for global commerce, Bitcoin has the potential to become a huge global payment network that operates outside of banks and government control. Bitcoin operates as both a currency and as a peer-to-peer payment network. Introduced in 2009, it uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of digital tokens that represent real fiat currency value.
First of all it’s successfully fighting against piracy, and turns former pirates into music consumers. Because there’s no reason why one would steal music when it can be easily “taken” for free in an absolutely legal way that benefits not only music consumers but artists too. And even though you can use Spotify for free more and more people are getting premium membership and paying the $9.99 monthly fee in return to get add free music streaming and the availability to listen to music offline. But some major labels are pushing Spotify towards limiting freemium membership, to convince more people to pay monthly fee, Ek refuses to do it, for obvious reasons – people will always find ways to get music for free, so if they won’t get it on Spotify they will find other places to do it and most likely in an illegal way. But still quite a few well known artist like Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Taylor Swift, Johnny Marr and many others who are against Spotify, stating that it’s paying pennys for artist and that they are giving up their music for free, and staying with iTunes rather than Spotify. iTunes, in my opinion, is good for short term income, as when people buy a song they can listen to it as many times as they want and artist don’t get any more income from that song after someone have bought it, where as if an artist have their songs on Spotify even after 20 years
New online retail brand e.g. Amazon, Lastminute.com - Essentially these companies could not have been conceived without the creation of the Internet. New companies sprang up as the Internet began to be adopted. Entrepreneurs were investing heavily in all sorts of start-ups. Some were successes, most were not. [pic]
When you think about social media what do you think of. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or Vine. Well social media is more than that. Social media is not just Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Social media is any online website that lets you interact with other people, share photo and information and keeps you updated. Or do you think about how it’s made a positive or negative impact on today’s society. In my personal opinion I think social media has made both positive and negatives impacts on today’s society .Some of the negative impacts are cyberbullying and addiction, and the positive impacts are spreading the word and increasing business sales.
Internet is an important tool that enhance the “capability” for many workers and companies; it consider to be a universal, as it has the ability for sharing information, communicating with others (Reinard 2007). The usage of technology tools such as internet at wok is essential for any organisation because it helps to complete any task with less amount of time, but some workers use internet for not related work purposes, which can cost their companies their time and money. In this essay, it will look at the cyber loafing, which considered being the factor of reducing workers’ performance. Also the negative and the positive usage of social networking and it will evaluate the impact of instant messenger, email, Facebook and Twitter on workers’ productivity.
First, there are On Demand companies. Uber is the king of the on demand O2O industry. On demand has been a very fast growing industry, the idea that you can click a button on your phone and a car shows up, or someone comes to your house to clean, or food arrives at your house is all very appealing and there are already numerous billion dollar companies in the on demand O2O space. Secondly, there are Daily Deals: Groupon and LivingSocial were the first to almost crack the O2O code. The fact that Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yelp and thousands of other online companies all started a daily deal website in the same year is unprecedented. One could smell the greed in the air, and it topped out with Groupon’s $20B public valuation just 3 years after its launch, making Groupon the fastest growing business in history. But today Groupon is worth less than 10% of that value ($1.75 billion as of 1/10/16) and there is a graveyard full of failed daily deal sites. The 50% discount offer and the 25% fee just are not sustainable for offline merchants. Offline is still the king as the 95% of retail sector still is in brick & mortar. Prices vary on a continuous basis as per demand and supply in the
What if there was a way to consume and use everyday products while knowing the people who put the hard work into growing and harvesting them are being treated as fairly as possible? Fortunately, there is a way for the consumer to have full confidence in this while purchasing their products. What the buyer should look out for is if the product is marked “Fair Trade” or not. Fair Trade is a type of business in which it is established that the producer is paid a fair price for the goods they provide. Whereas some producers get ripped off and paid only a small portion of what they should be, Fair Trade ensures that this does not happen and gives the producers the full benefit of their work. Some may ask, “is it really worth it to invest in something that will only put a label on a product?” The answer is yes. In this day and age, every humane person should have the decency to pay a little bit extra to warrant the fair treatment of the producers. Fair Trade is quite a simple social movement to operate with rules that can be easily enforced and the range of products is large yielding it to have its strengths and weaknesses, as does every operation of this scale.
It is also important to agree that this transaction in almost every tradable commodity and services, both genuine and counterfeit, supports the dealings shown in black market trade. According to Bahmani-Oskooee & Goswami (2005), the supporters of black market cite many reasons for its embracement. The fact that the trade involves transactions in almost every tradable commodity and services, both genuine and counterfeit, makes it very difficult to curb. This is explicitly demonstrated by the supporters of black market, who cite numerous reasons for its existence. Economic support, employment creation, money circulation, and many others have anchored this trade within various world economies.
Cloud computing is a type of computing that depends on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal device to handle applications.
In today’s era “INTERNET” is playing a significant role in our daily life. People can walk through the internet to one who is actually living on the different side of the planet, can send mails round the clock, search information & even buy things online. With this invention of internet there is a shift in traditional way of shopping. Now there is no need to open a physical store. One can be active at any time and place and purchase products and services. The number of users of internet is increasing day by day which means that online shopping is increasing. Various characteristics of online shopping is making it more convenient for the customers, as compared to traditional way of shopping such as the ability to view and purchase goods and
E-commerce application is a platform where there is buying and selling of products and services which are done by businesses and consumers via an electronic medium