Sharing economy中英双语字幕版

Sharing economy

@留学后 微信号liuxue-hou 听译Aaron 时间轴Jeff

Every day,it seems like there's a new service poping up that connects people who want things with people who have things.

每天似乎都有新的服务会出现，连接着有需求的人和有供给的人。

If I want to go for a ride,I don't have to worry about buying a car or renting a car.

如果我想出去，我不必去考虑我应该去买车还是去租车。

I can get on my smart phone and in a matter of minutes,I can find someon who's willing to take me there.

我只要打开我的智能手机，几分钟后，我就可以找到愿意载我去的人。

If I want a home-cooked meal,with services like Feastly and Eatwith，I'm able to just find people in my community,that are willing to cook a dinner for me.

如果我想吃家常菜，可以通过Feastly或者Eatwith，我便可以找到在社区里愿意给我做晚餐的人。

They will even let me come to their house and eat it.

他们甚至会邀请我去他们家里用餐。

This is exciting stuff.

这些新事物令人兴奋。

But with all of this excitement,people are really trying to figure out what do we do with this?

虽然的确很让人兴奋，很多人在想办法如何来应对这些新事物。

This is something that we've never thought of before.

这些东西是前所未有的。

Now regulators are stepping in,and trying to figure out well how do we treat these new sevices.

监管者正在介入，试图想办法来管理这些新的服务。

But the question we really are to be asking ourselves is this any different than the way we've ever done things before?

但我们真正应该考虑的是——如今我们的做法和过去有何本质区别？

Now let's think about that for a minute.

现在让我们思考一下。

Let's go back to my parents,25 years ago.

我们先回到25年前我的父母的那个年代。

If my parents wanted to go out on the town for the night，they'd have to find someone who is willing to watch me and my siblings.

我过我的父母想晚上去市区转转,他们便必须找一位能够愿意照看我和我的兄妹的人。

Typically they'd go down the street,find Tori,a high schooler and have her come on over and watch us for the day.

通常，他们会找附近一位叫朵丽的高中生，让她到家里来照看我们。

But that was really dependant on whether Tori was available and whether Tori wanted to do it.

但是这主要取决于朵丽是否有空以及她是否愿意过来做这件事。

The beautiful thing about the sharing economy is:it's taken this really simple idea of community and it's no longer confined to the neighborhoods we live in and the people we know,but it's been extended to the entire world.

分享经济的魅力在于，它利用了“社群”这个简单的概念,使得它不再局限于我们所居住的地方以及所认识的人,而是延伸到了全世界。

If I wanna go to New York or LA or Paris，I don't have to worry about finding a friend that;s gonna let me borrow their couch or sleep in their room for the weekend.

如果我想去纽约、洛杉矶或者巴黎，我不必去担心能否找到一个能提供沙发或房间的小伙伴。

In a matter of minutes,I can get on the Internet and have hundreds of rooms and couches available to me.

只需要几分钟，我就可以在网上找到成百上千个可供选择的房间和沙发。

This has huge potential for consumers and producers.

这对于消费者和生产者都有着巨大的潜力。

Unfortunately,all of these potential benefits are at risk and the sharing economy may actually be stopped in its tracks.

不幸的是，以上这些潜在的好处正面临危险,分享经济可能会被扼杀在摇篮里。

Old,outmoded forms of regulation are being used to regulate these new sharing economy firms and they're ultimately stifling their continued growth and development.

陈旧、过时的管制措施正在被用来管理新兴的分享经济上,这些管制措施最终会抑制整个分享经济产业的发展和进步。

But the problem is that the sharing economy firms alleviate the need for these regulations in the 1st place.

问题点在于，分享经济中的企业本身就是在解决那些以前所需管制的问题。

The two party rating system that Uber,and Feastly,and Airbnb,and most of these firms all employ is a way to overcome the informational problems that regulations were put in place to solve in the 1st place.

Uber、Feastly以及Airbnb等公司所使用的双方打分系统正是用来解决信息不对称的难题，而正是这难题才在以前催生了管制。

If I have had a bad experience with a driver,I give them a bad rating.

如果我对所乘车的司机不满，我就会给他差评。

If a driver has a bad experience with me,he gives me a bad rating.

如果司机对我这乘客不满，他也会给我差评。

So,people with the bad ratings,no one would want to trade,and borrow,and buy,and sell from them.

差评多的人，就没人愿意和他做交易。

And the people with the good ratings will get all of the business.

而好评多的人则会有很多生意。

At the end of the day,it pushes everyone to be the best version of themselves as they can,to stay in the market，without the need for regulations in the first place.

这就促使每个人都尽可能地完善自己的服务，以便于在市场中站住脚。这就从根本上去除了管制的必要。

So the ultimate question here is will polivy makers evolve and adapt with all of these new firms coming in and the sharing economy growing and blossoming as it has?

所以最终的问题是——政策制定者能否随着新事物的发展而进步，让分享经济继续繁荣下去？

Or will they apply yesterday's regulation,and yesterday's theory to today's economy and all of the benefits that it has for consumers and producers?

亦或者是他们仍然用过去的管制措施来对待当今的经济以及分享经济所带来的对消费者或生产者的好处？

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