Very quietly Airbnb has been expanding its trust platform beyond enabling people to rent their spare rooms to allowing them to translate their passions into professions, and thereby empower more self-driving people.

Airbnb’s “experiences” site has grown tenfold this year.

The future belongs to communities that learn to leverage their unique attributes, artisans and human talent.

We have to do 50 things right to recreate that broad middle class of the ’50s and ’60s, and platforms like Airbnb’s are just one of them. But you have to be inspired by how many people are now finding joy and income by mining their passions.

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