Sharing, Instead of Owning

A HEALTHY NEW TREND is emerging in America! This is exciting news; with all the unhealthy trends afoot in American life, a healthy one is a breath of fresh air. This one involves economics, as usual. An economy based on access and sharing is emerging to augment the existing economy based on ownership. It all got started with the time share resort vacation concept. Nice log cabin on the lake or beach, owned by fifty two people, each of whom has access one week a year. Shared owndership, shared access. Now the concept is coming to cars. Cars and houses are expensive, why not share access, and expense? What else is possible? Community vegetable gardens are springing up, with labor and harvest sharing clearly spelled out, to avoid trouble. All cooperative economics, if voluntary, requires clear contracts and agreements. If you have a forty thousand dollar BMW in your driveway for all the world to see, and your neighbor has a forty thousand dollar Beamer of a different color, and neither of you ever goes anywhere, why not share, and save money? Shared ownership, shared access, can benefit the rich as well as the poor. A sort of voluntary cooperative economics, grass roots socialism, from the bottom up, without government coercion. This access economy already involves food, housing, and transportation, which are fundamental needs. It already involves roads, highways, bridges, sewer and water systems. Before you know it, people will be time sharing jobs. Some already are. If you didn't know any better, you'd swear that voluntary socialism is sweeping across America, the sneaky way, bit by bit... Perhaps the time will come when a citizen can be married to somebody half the time, and married to someone else the other half. Spousal time sharing! All this must come as quite a shock to conservative capitalisits, so perhaps we should leave it under publicly owned corporate control. For further information please contact your local Wal Mart affiliate, or local Bank of America franchise. (just joking)