Will Sharing Economy destroy the Monopoly Economy ?

Carmine De Fusco
The Blog of a Computer Scientist
2 min readFeb 8, 2018

What we are experiencing in these years has already happened when in the late 90s Internet and the Web have become mass phenomena, especially in the United States.
At the dawn of the new millennium, the first ones who found themselves in difficulty were the Major of the record companies. Napster first and decentralized networks like Gnutella, Kad (eMule) and Torrent later, showed that the world was changing, people could exchange files. The file sharing services began to be used by anyone and the ability to share multimedia content was a revolution on a par with how it was able to share our lives on social networks like Facebook & Co. Someone more forward-looking in those years understood that you could make money on the web selling services on demand, or selling the same products that were on the physical shelves but in their digital version, which inevitably cost less. So there was the explosion of web sites like iTunes, Beatport for audio, Netflix for video and Amazon at beginning only for books and then for anything a store could sell. About Netflix, which has arrived in more country a few years ago, was the main reason why BlockBuster has gone from about 5000 stores in the United States to just 12. Unfortunately, those who do not adapt to technological progress, and I do not say that both for good, it is destined to become extinct.

Today, thanks to apps and smartphones, we are having a new revolution similar to when the web has become public. New services, new scenarios are born. Just as in the late 90s, thanks to the web, a product could be accessed at a more competitive price, today thanks to applications (Uber and Flixbus are an example in the transport, Airbnb for the tourism is another example, and so on) you can access an equally competing service. It is the effect of the free market. Pay attention, I do not say that Uber is an absolute good, but its success it is the effect of people that love to choose cheaper things. The sharing economy will destroy some area of the monopoly economy. All this for the simple fact that the consumer will always choose what is better to their wallets, is a natural and inevitable process.

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Carmine De Fusco
The Blog of a Computer Scientist

Computer Scientist in general, Software Engineer in detail, Visionary for someone. Contact me here: cardefusco (at) gmail (dot) com