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by ghaff
728 days ago
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It's just hard to get away from the transaction costs associated with exchanging low-value physical goods over distance. A swap meet with a local electronics club? Sure. But selling individual items on eBay? Not so much. There were a bunch of ideas associated with the early Web like sharing tools and so forth that just don't make sense outside an informal neighborhood "economy" (and often not even there). |
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I'd give anyone stuff from my cabling and computer parts collection as long as they had a use for it. I'd do this without cost if I could.
Except: It isn't usually free to get things from my empire of dirt to anyone else's empire of dirt.
By the time I boxed up a widget and sent it on its way, it is likely that more money has been spent than just procuring a new widget to begin with.