Showing posts with label sharing economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sharing economy. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Can A Sharing Economy Coincide With A Desire For Onlline Privacy?

The Triple Standard
by Rachel Hoyt

image by idea go via freedigitalphotos.net


Don't talk to strangers
or eat their free candy.
The street's full of dangers
that squash fine and dandy.

Know that the government
is always spying,
claims wise discernment,
but could just be lying.

Use your spy tactics
to learn who to trust.
The world's full of antics
and fun that's unjust.

It's the triple standard
hip modern folks hold
to transform substandard
lives into pure gold.

Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.


This poem was inspired by an article about trying to "opt out"


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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Can A Sharing Economy Fit With Democracy?

photo by imagerymajestic via freedigitalphotos.net
 
 
What's Yours Is Yours
by Rachel Hoyt
 
Sharing is daring.
Caring is baring
your plight with delight
though your pack be light -
No iPod or hot rod,
No survival pod,
No hot tub or back rubs,
No security hub,
No trap door or trick floor,
No free candy store,
Just what's yours, all yours,
No less and no more.
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 
 
Sharing
by Rachel Hoyt

Sharing is daring
To let your path collide,
Abide with caring,
Wear more trust than pride,
Alongside those faring,
Comparing their ride,
No guide, just a clearing,
Appearing like the tide.
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 
It was not much of a surprise to me
to read that the sharing economy
is butting heads with democracy.