September 1 2023
Ep2: The Sharing Economy — “Books are the ultimate sharable gift,” says Rebekah Wright, Bookstore Manager for Barnes and Noble in Santa Rosa, CA
A Note from Actuary and Author Peter Neuwirth, FSA, FCA — I invite you to tune in for this month’s episode of my podcast and video show, Money Mountaineering, where for 30 minutes, financial experts help us answer the question: What’s your future worth?
This is Season 2 of the show, and we explore the Sharing Economy:
- What we each consider as “assets” to live on comprises far more than our financial assets and real estate; but also includes our skills, knowledge, relationships, and things that we own that we don’t use all the time and can share with others.
- Sharing is both financially efficient (cutting out middlemen and transaction costs) and more sustainable long term than spending down a finite pot of money.
- A sharing economy requires “affinity” and happens best locally and in the real world. How and where it works and how scalable it is are the questions that I will explore in the upcoming interviews.
Meet this month’s guest: Rebekah Wright, Bookstore Manager for Barnes and Noble in Santa Rosa, CA
Our topic: Books, bookstores, and the role they play in our world
Pete and Bekah discuss:
- What is the role of a bookstore in terms of the sharing economy?
- What does title curation in the bookstore look like, and how does it happen?
- What is the relationship between the store and the author?
- Why is censorship of books harmful?
- How do we keep bookstores alive?
About our guest: Rebekah Wright, 42, Bookstore Manager for Barnes and Noble in Sonoma County. Bekah, a mother, writer/poet, believes everyone has a story to tell.
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