should I, could I, rent out this baby?

Personal car-sharing is a new twist on auto rentals

Click on the link above to read about the newest twist in car sharing – apps that allow the average person to “share” their vehicle by renting it out.

The brainchild of a guy who noticed how much of the time zillions of vehicles are just parked, not in use, not doing anything, sites like Getaround, Wheelz, JustShareIt, RelayRides and others allow the enterprising person (yourself, maybe? me, maybe?) to either rent or rent out a car.

This is brilliant, it reminds me of the old idea of the fugitive “hiding in plain sight” – only this time, it’s our consumerist mindset that’s hiding. We were conditioned to believe that we ALL needed to own these things, that otherwise it would just be too difficult to get around, do things, to live, etc. (And believe me it was planned conditioning – there was/is no innate “need” to have things like cars.)

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I originally came upon this idea years ago reading about sustainability and alternate economies — indeed, an alternate economic model where consumerism is not the goal. I remember the model in what I was reading was the concept of “tool libraries.”

Here the idea is even more obvious, as who on your block constantly needs their lawnmower, their hedge clippers, their wheelbarrow and their weedwhacker – right? Most of the time — at least in the neighborhoods I’ve lived in — these things sit idle in garages. Why not just share these things? Everyone’s costs plummet, while everyone still gets the use of the item they felt they needed in the first place.

Of course, we live in a society that has as its current model consumerism – and which depends on people buying shit endlessly for the economy to grow at all. So what we’d need to have is a radically different society with different priorities — perhaps education could be one, health care could be another, art could be another, and splendor in the grass as well.

So, I’m not sure if anyone would want to rent my lovely 2005 Scion XA, but currently it sits idle much of the time, as my work is home-based. But hey, it’s deceptively spacey (4 doors AND a hatchback, betches).

What do you think? Is a “sharing society” something that will catch on, to rid this world of some much unneeded “stuff?”