The Sharing Economy

July102023

Ep2: The Sharing Economy — “Books are the ultimate sharable gift,” says Rebekah Wright, Bookstore Manager for Barnes and Noble in Santa Rosa, CA

The Sharing Economy
The Sharing Economy
Ep2: The Sharing Economy — "Books are the ultimate sharable gift," says Rebekah Wright, Bookstore Manager for Barnes and Noble in Santa Rosa, CA
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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.

Click here to learn more about actuary and author Peter Neuwirth: www.PeterNeuwirth.com • Listen to our podcasts on PeterNeuwirthRadio.com • Watch all of our episodes: www.PeterNeuwirth.tv

 

Author and Actuary Peter Neuwirth explains: “I live in Santa Rosa, California, and I will be talking to many of the folks I’ve gotten to know over the last several years since my house burned down in the famous Glass Fire that swept through the area on September 27, 2020. It was just before I finished the manuscript of Money Mountaineering, and in months that followed, I got to learn an awful lot about how to recover from a disaster financial forest fire — and how powerful the sharing economy is to enable everybody to survive and thrive as a community rebuilds from the ashes.”

The key aspects of this perspective as it relates to the Sharing Economy are:

  • 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.

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