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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s a for-profit service that people use to rent-out, and rent-in their tools

So yes this is the same old shit as labeling Uber or Lyft a “ridesharing app” instead of calling it what it is, a taxi service.

The correct name for this type of entity would be a consignment & rental store.

This kind of thing has NOTHING to do with libraries whatsoever in structure but more importantly in intended function and community impact.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed.