One thing that our individualized lifestyles have done is to create massive inefficiencies in use of resources. We all do not need riding lawn mowers for our postage stamp size yards, nor do we all need a bandsaw in our garage for that one project per year. Yet, this is the direction our wonderful advertisers have sent us in.
Many people are thinking about the impracticalities and coming up with creative ways to address them. As a result, there has been an explosion of online sharing tools and organizations that are creating new channels for people to share with each other in mutually beneficial ways.
These include tool sharing libraries, seed and plant swaps, sharing vehicles, homes, high tech equipment, little free libraries, and anything else that makes sense to share.