What is abuse? Abuse is about fairness. Fairness is not about money, though we have tried for a long time to mediate pain and suffering through money. Abuse and fairness are emotional. It is not rational. Putting a monetary value to this is rationalizing what is fundamentally not rational.
Just because it is not rational does not make it any less real. You don't negotiate with a hurricane. If you are weighing the pros and cons about renting stuff out to a friend, then there are some deeper issues involved. Is this particular friend widely known for mooching off of you? (Why is such a person your friend anyways?) Generally, if you fear abuse of your assets and personal space/time, then you also have some Jungian shadows related to abusing your friendships.
Renting something out to strangers and taking money to mitigate risk -- that seems fair to me. (But risk is emotionally related to the same kinds of issues related to renting or not renting out to a friend, or a friend abusing or not abusing your generosity).
There are ways to deal with the underlying non-rationalizable emotions that does not involve money. Hopefully, those methods will become more popular going forward.
It's interesting. I have never considered this before. Conducting transactions like this means stripping away the impersonal nature of corporations (http://onthespiral.com/unifying-value-universe), makes you much more aware of human nature, maybe gets people to start dealing with it.
Just because it is not rational does not make it any less real. You don't negotiate with a hurricane. If you are weighing the pros and cons about renting stuff out to a friend, then there are some deeper issues involved. Is this particular friend widely known for mooching off of you? (Why is such a person your friend anyways?) Generally, if you fear abuse of your assets and personal space/time, then you also have some Jungian shadows related to abusing your friendships.
Renting something out to strangers and taking money to mitigate risk -- that seems fair to me. (But risk is emotionally related to the same kinds of issues related to renting or not renting out to a friend, or a friend abusing or not abusing your generosity).
There are ways to deal with the underlying non-rationalizable emotions that does not involve money. Hopefully, those methods will become more popular going forward.
It's interesting. I have never considered this before. Conducting transactions like this means stripping away the impersonal nature of corporations (http://onthespiral.com/unifying-value-universe), makes you much more aware of human nature, maybe gets people to start dealing with it.
Consider also http://playspent.org ... It turns out: a social net is very advantageous. (http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Need-Rise-Network-ebook/dp/B009K8...)