A. The sharing economy 1. Explain briefly what the sharing economy is, and outline some of the attitudes to it that is presented in the three texts. The sharing economy is a relatively new thing. The idea is that you have something you share with others. This could be anything from your car, a room, dinner, or your underpants. The attitudes towards this new thing are very different from each other. Some think it is the next best thing like Catharine Hamm in text two. Others are a little bit more sceptic and admits sharing economy has some downsides, like Suzanne Bearne in text number one. Text number three written by Mary Dejevsky has a quite different point of view on this. She thinks it is leaps into the past, and that they will shut out the impoverished and underprivileged, and puts a question mark to who will really benefit. 2. How does Catharine Hamm engage the reader in text 2? Give examples from the text. Catharine Hamm, author of text number two, engages the readers by starting off with telling us she made some …show more content…
Mary Dejevsky believes it is a step into the past, and not the future as it is meant to be. She claims in the subheading that “these supposedly post-capitalist solutions are just as likely to shut out the poor and underprivileged”. I do believe that this is somewhat correct, that it will not help the really poor people. Let us take me for an example. I am not poor, but I care about my money, that is probably also the reason I just hit a hundred thousand in the bank. I would never take a cap, because it is so damn expensive. Therefore, I need to go through the hassle of walking to the bus stop, wait for the bus because it is always late, taking a huge detour, and walking to my destination with rain soaking my shoes and pants, just like they did this morning, and because of that I am just sitting here freezing to death because wet pants are quite