
Sometimes, when I’m in my local gym, I think about a quote I read a few years ago: “You’ll own nothing, and be happy”.
Its origins are murky, but as far as I can tell it’s paraphrased from an essay by Danish politician Ida Auken, and it’s about the possibility of a sharing economy. It postulates what might happen if the author lived in a city in which none of the inhabitants owned anything, and everything was shared. Just like a gym.