Sharing Economy - Broccoli!!!

Charlie McGill
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
3.6.19
My Sharing Economy

My dream would be to have a sharing economy surrounding food. I think that everyone should learn how to cook and not enough people these days know, but if there was an established sharing economy surrounding food, people would learn how to cook so they could trade food for delicious homemade cooking. My base currency would have to be broccoli, with other items of food such as chicken, bread, and cake being worth a little more, like 25 peices of broccoli. The reason I choose this is because anyone can eat broccoli, no matter your food allergy, way of life (vegetarianism, veganism), or class. People can work to get broccoli by growing it, using seeds that can be obtained through broccoli itself or through a transaction. Think of buying broccoli seeds, or really any seeds, as an investment. Seeds could give me a de-facto stock market as well, people could invest in one seed that is grown in bulk by a company and get some of the profits through their investment, but if some disaster happens and the seeds all die, they lose all their money, like a stock market crash. After broccoli has been established as the base currency, the market would decide how much other items would cost, for example since people love pizza so much, the price might be a bit high, since that's what they can charge. However, on the other hand, the price might be low because there is such a demand for it, people make a lot. That is all up to the market to decide. I would be the president of this sharing economy, and I think that the government should be involved in a few ways. First of all, people who are very down on their luck and low on broccoli can get broccoli stamps, where the government would send them a bit of broccoli to make sure they’re ok in the present and some seeds, so they can grow their wealth in the future. The government will also regulate the price of broccoli, to make sure that broccoli is always worth something and not like the japanese Yen. Overall, I think this would be a wonderful sharing economy; it will work and function as an economy, and it will also force people to learn how to cook and bake (in terms of making bread, cake, and chicken, the other forms of currency worth 40, 80, and 120 pieces of broccoli respectively) so it’s a benefit socially.

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  1. Fabricio GuerraMarch 6, 2019 at 4:45 PM

    I would like to disagree with you statement considering "down with their luck". I'm sorry sir, but there exists no luck, only stats facts like Ben Shapiro debates.

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