Fantastic read/listen: "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity" (FREE download for first time Audible Customers).

This is my third post on Steemit, and I have really been enjoying my time in this community so far!

I am fascinated with the ideas behind the sharing economy, mainly its positive implications towards sustainability and defiance against the winner-takes-all mentality of corporate greed. I think the Steemit platform offers an excellent demonstration of its power.

We shouldn't have to depend on external entities (banks/governments) to validate our actions and determine how much they are worth. As cliche as it sounds, cryptocurrencies do offer the opportunity to bring the power to the people. So thank you Steemit Team and fellow Steemians for taking part in making this (r)evolution possible!

One of my first introductions to this movement was through the Audible book called "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity", written and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff. He is an advocate for open source solutions to social problems, and this book stresses a simple fact that is somehow still little understood: that continuous growth as a corporate goal is unsustainable, and thus a recipe against prosperity.

Source: Audible.com

This is a fantastic book that I recommend all of you to read if you haven't done so already. Best of all, I can gift you the Audiobook for free if you do not have an Audible account already. Talk about the Sharing Economy! I love audiobooks because they allow me to "read" while cooking, working out, or being stuck in LA traffic (which is a lot).

For those of you who do not have access to the Audible US store, I may have found a workaround too. My apologies if this does not work, but it could be worth the shot! See my other post on how to set up an Audible US store account while living abroad.

Just as a disclaimer, I will not benefit from this promotion, other than your kindly upvotes!

If you enjoyed this book, please consider supporting the author and looking into more of his bibliography.

Please let me know if the comments if you have read the book and what you thought about it. I'd also be happy to answer any questions and keep the conversation going.

Keep on sharing,

Jeff