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A presentation of 20 slides each lasting 20 seconds that was recently used to introduce the emerging #SharingEconomy to an audience in London from the Jewish Community.
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David Brown
Social Action Coordinator, JHub
@liveinthegrey @BigGreenJewish
facebook.com/BigGreenJewish
Jewishgeekandproud.wordpress.com
#SharingEconomy
The challenge?
I’m bored!
Me too!
The challenge: Hyper consumption
Over the last three decades we shifted from being consumers to being turbo consumers…We stopped comparing ourselves with the Joneses and attempted instead to match up to the Beckhams- Neal Lawson, All Consuming
The challenge: Degradation of earth and its natural resources
The challenge: Consumer economies create wealth & jobs
‘cos we are living in a material worldand I am a material girl
The idea: From ownership to access
“Fancy cars that go very fast, You know, they never last, no no”
The idea: From stuff to experiences
The idea: Giving people what they want NOW
The idea: Empowering people, generating trust and building community
Is this Jewish? Well it is Jew-ish
Limits on ownership and consumption
“It’s all an illusion…
There’s too much confusion”
Avoid wanton destruction & waste of natural resources. Take care of the earth
But Judaism is not completely anti materialism and consumption
Let a person not…go to the opposite extreme, not to eat meat, drink wine, marry, live in a nice house or dress in fine clothes…
`Is not what the Torah has forbidden enough that you have to forbid for yourself other things?!'.
(Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1)
Rambam – everything in moderation
In Jewish practice as well as values…the Gemach
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