On a related note to last night's little thread about minimalism.
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On a related note to last night's little thread about minimalism. One thing that I feel is not properly considered in all of this is community. If you have an apartment building with 50 apartments, it seems madness for a majority of them to have a power drill for small DIY tasks like putting up a shelf. If you think about it, a typical power drill in a non professional context may never see more than an hour's total run time in its life. That's a crazy low utilisation level.
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On a related note to last night's little thread about minimalism. One thing that I feel is not properly considered in all of this is community. If you have an apartment building with 50 apartments, it seems madness for a majority of them to have a power drill for small DIY tasks like putting up a shelf. If you think about it, a typical power drill in a non professional context may never see more than an hour's total run time in its life. That's a crazy low utilisation level.
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Now we could all just go and rent one every time we need to put a shelf up, but the time and energy of going to a shop (often by car) is not a good use of resources. But neither is the number of power drills taking up space and doing nothing. In this situation a community level "library of things" is the ideal way to do this. Instead of most apartment residents owning a shitty consumer grade power drill. The community could have one quality unit that anyone in the building can borrow.
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Now we could all just go and rent one every time we need to put a shelf up, but the time and energy of going to a shop (often by car) is not a good use of resources. But neither is the number of power drills taking up space and doing nothing. In this situation a community level "library of things" is the ideal way to do this. Instead of most apartment residents owning a shitty consumer grade power drill. The community could have one quality unit that anyone in the building can borrow.
2/n@quixoticgeek When I was helping my other half to do some DIY at her house in Seoul a few years ago, the local council had such a set up, and you could borrow several tools from their local council office for a few days, which was a great idea!
We used it quite a bit.
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