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Title: The Evolution of Trust - P2P Economy
Post by: Principe on November 26, 2014, 10:56:31 AM
The Evolution of Trust by David Brooks [The New Your Times]

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I’m one of those people who thought Airbnb would never work. I thought people would never rent out space in their homes to near strangers. But I was clearly wrong. Eleven million travelers have stayed in Airbnb destinations, according to data shared by the company. Roughly 550,000 homes are now being shared by hosts. Airbnb is more popular in Europe than it is even in the United States. Paris is the largest destination city.

And Airbnb is only a piece of the peer-to-peer economy. People are renting out their cars to people they don’t know, dropping off their pets with people they don’t know, renting power tools to people they don’t know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/opinion/david-brooks-the-evolution-of-trust.html