On: Uber for Everything

[sopooneo]

I'd say communes are small scale, and the dynamics of efficiently sharing among a larger number of people are fundamentally different.

[jacquesm → sopooneo]

Some Ashrams are huge, and that's only one form of commune. A quick bit of googling turned up Auroville, 2000 inhabitants.

[nbouscal → jacquesm]

"Huge" in context, sure, but compared to the rest of the world? 2,000 inhabitants is impressive and all, but that solution couldn't possibly scale to 10 million.

[lobotryas → jacquesm]

That's cool. Can this scale to 2,000,000,000?

[jarek → lobotryas]

Does setting up 100,000 communes count?

[lobotryas → lobotryas]

That counts, however, unless each commune is completely independent, you run into meta issues of interactions between communes. Specifically: unless we take incredibly restrictive precautions to ensure equality, there will always be some losers and some winners.