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DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy

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So the sharing economy is when a company profits off the free labor of others. I mean, they could have hired couriers, but that would be more expensive.

Got it.

And no, as the history behind the 2018 movie 'Green Book' taught us, the real sharing economy, as is something other than labor exploitation, has older roots.

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook published 1936–1966 for African-Americans to have safe road trips during the Jim Crow era. Some of the information was voluntarily collected by U.S postal workers who gathered the information while on their routes.

> In a world with the Internet, cryptography, and the blockchain

BLOCKCHAIN? How old is this article? Ahh, February 14, 2016.

Well that didn't age well.

A couple of years ago, blockchains were formalized in U.S. state commercial law via U.C.C Article 12.

https://natlawreview.com/article/securing-digital-bag-newly-...

> UCC [amendments] provide welcome uniformity and clarity as digital assets become ubiquitous to our commercial system. With the framework of existing concepts well settled under traditional concepts of commercial law, the new amendments will further help solidify a baseline standard for incorporating cryptocurrency and other emerging technology into our everyday transactions.

What does that have to do with a bill of lading needed for goods shipped by sea between states? Which is what the article is about.

North Dakota and New Mexico are land-locked. And I don't think U.C.C. applies to interstate commerce.

Edit: https://www.saul.com/insights/alert/digital-assets-and-ucc-a... says as of 11/29/2023 'thirteen states plus the District of Columbia have adopted the Article 12 amendments' with more in the future, but it seems those only apply to digital assets, not a bill of lading ('A CER excludes any digital assets that are not subject to “control” as well as those that are already subject to other commercial laws')

> I don't think U.C.C. applies to interstate commerce

https://www.uniformlaws.org/acts/ucc

   The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a comprehensive set of laws governing all commercial transactions in the United States. It is not a federal law, but a uniformly adopted state law. Uniformity of law is essential in this area for the interstate transaction of business. Because the UCC has been universally adopted, businesses can enter into contracts with confidence that the terms will be enforced in the same way by the courts of every American jurisdiction.

Ahh, and a look at Wikipedia would have told me the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code#Goals

It still has nothing to do with blockchain applied to a bill of lading, which was the implication in the linked-to piece.

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