The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    You had it, then you lost it. It’s for those things you need only once a year or two years or never again.

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      8 months ago

      Libraries of things should be state run and free at point of use. They should also be integrated into communities in a way that makes them easy to access. Instead of everyone having a lawn mower, you check out an electric mower once a week, on a date that you’ve reserved it, and the entire community uses it, or if in a large community, your immediate neighbors use it, and then it’s returned for the next people to use it.

      Libraries of things should not only be for things you use once a year. They should be for just about everything that you don’t use every day.

      Usafruct >>>>>> UsusFructisAbusus.