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Secondly: a lot of writers talk about Uber and Airbnb and TaskRabbit and Lyft and so on as part of the sharing economy.
第二點：很多寫手談論起Uber，Airbnb，TaskRabbit，Lyft等企業時，把他們當做了共享經濟的一部分。
This is a very powerful idea, that peers can come together and create and share wealth.
這個想法很不錯，個人也可以匯聚在一起創造并共享財富。
My view is that ... these companies are not really sharing.
我的觀點是，這些公司并沒有真正的共享。
In fact, they're successful precisely because they don't share.
實際上，他們的成功恰恰是因為他們不共享。
They aggregate services together, and they sell them.
他們把服務匯集并加以出售。
What if, rather than Airbnb being a $25 billion corporation,
假如說Airbnb并不是那家250億美元的公司
there was a distributed application on a blockchain, we'll call it B-Airbnb,
在區塊鏈上有一個分布式的應用，我們叫它B-Airbnb，
and it was essentially owned by all of the people who have a room to rent.
它從根本上屬于所有提供房間出租的人們。
And when someone wants to rent a room, they go onto the blockchain database and all the criteria,
當有人想租借一間房間，他們進入區塊鏈的數據庫和標準庫，
they sift through, it helps them find the right room, and then the blockchain helps with the contracting,
他們細細篩選，幫助他們找到合適的房間，隨后區塊鏈幫助簽訂合約。
it identifies the party, it handles the payments just through digital payments -- they're built into the system.
鑒定當事人，通過數字支付解決支付問題，這是系統內置的支付方式。
And it even handles reputation, because if she rates a room as a five-star room,
它甚至處理聲譽問題，如果她給一間房間五星好評，
that room is there, and it's rated, and it's immutable.
那么房間本身和評價都已不可更改。
So, the big sharing-economy disruptors in Silicon Valley could be disrupted, and this would be good for prosperity.
所以硅谷共享制經濟的破壞者將不復存在，這將有利于經濟繁榮。
