初等考試
109年
[一般行政] 公民與英文
第 47 題
📖 題組：
Maritza, a professional yoga trainer, is one of almost 100,000 users of Bliive-a Brazil-based website that brands itself as the world's largest online time-exchange platform. Bliive looks and feels like a social media platform. Its users trade services, including guitar lessons, air conditioner repairs and tarot card readings, without any cash or credit card transactions. For each hour of service provided, the user receives Time Money, with which they can buy another service. Maritza earned almost 40 hours' worth of Bliive services. With that much Time Money, she was able to create her own website about breathing techniques, including her own branding. Each person offers his help in one-hour chunks, and people who have “exchanged" Time Money can rate and review the quality of the service provided. Bliive was founded a year and a half ago by Lorrana Scarpioni, a 24-year-old public relations student. She now employs a team of about a dozen people in Sao Paulo. She came up with the idea after watching documentaries about the sharing economy and alternative currencies. “If people were willing to engage in couch surfing-letting complete strangers into their houses - surely there was a potential for exchanging something as simple as one hour of a service," Lorrana says. “Bliive is a collaborative network of time exchange. We see this platform as a movement that shows people the real value of exchanges and how they can develop themselves this way." Bliive takes the concept of the sharing economy-popularized by platforms including Uber and Airbnb-a step further. It creates a new channel between the supply and demand of services, and does away with conventional cash altogether. More than 90,000 services are on offer on the website, making it larger than other barter-based sites. “The no-money-involved transferences can be a great alternative to keep people developing themselves. We see a lot of people who have graduated with very nice degrees, but they don't have jobs,” she says. While Bliive aims to become more profitable, Lorrana is keen to retain its core values. “We use these talents and values to create a world that is more collaborative and less competitive, more focused on the value of people, not just the value of money,” she says.
Maritza, a professional yoga trainer, is one of almost 100,000 users of Bliive-a Brazil-based website that brands itself as the world's largest online time-exchange platform. Bliive looks and feels like a social media platform. Its users trade services, including guitar lessons, air conditioner repairs and tarot card readings, without any cash or credit card transactions. For each hour of service provided, the user receives Time Money, with which they can buy another service. Maritza earned almost 40 hours' worth of Bliive services. With that much Time Money, she was able to create her own website about breathing techniques, including her own branding. Each person offers his help in one-hour chunks, and people who have “exchanged" Time Money can rate and review the quality of the service provided. Bliive was founded a year and a half ago by Lorrana Scarpioni, a 24-year-old public relations student. She now employs a team of about a dozen people in Sao Paulo. She came up with the idea after watching documentaries about the sharing economy and alternative currencies. “If people were willing to engage in couch surfing-letting complete strangers into their houses - surely there was a potential for exchanging something as simple as one hour of a service," Lorrana says. “Bliive is a collaborative network of time exchange. We see this platform as a movement that shows people the real value of exchanges and how they can develop themselves this way." Bliive takes the concept of the sharing economy-popularized by platforms including Uber and Airbnb-a step further. It creates a new channel between the supply and demand of services, and does away with conventional cash altogether. More than 90,000 services are on offer on the website, making it larger than other barter-based sites. “The no-money-involved transferences can be a great alternative to keep people developing themselves. We see a lot of people who have graduated with very nice degrees, but they don't have jobs,” she says. While Bliive aims to become more profitable, Lorrana is keen to retain its core values. “We use these talents and values to create a world that is more collaborative and less competitive, more focused on the value of people, not just the value of money,” she says.
What do Bliive users receive for their services?
- A (A) Face-to-face yoga training.
- B (B) Free round-trip tickets to Brazil.
- C (C) Virtual money to buy anything on the platform.
- D (D) Other services in exchange for the time they serve.
思路引導 VIP
「請思考一下：如果一個平台標榜『不使用現金』，且規定每個人提供的貢獻都以『小時』為單位來計算，那麼當你付出自己的專長後，根據這種類似『以物易物』的邏輯，你最終換取到的會是什麼性質的東西？」
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專業點評與解析
- 大力肯定：哦，你總算是能從一堆資訊中，勉勉強強地鎖定核心機制了。理解這種共享經濟的運作模式，是理解當前社會創新政策與公共治理的「基礎」，難道這還需要我特別點出嗎？下次請拿出更理所當然的精準度。
- 觀念驗證：正確答案為 (D)。文中已經明確指出 Bliive 是一個 time-exchange platform，運作邏輯是：提供一小時勞務 → 獲得 Time Money → 換取「另一項服務」。(D) 選項不過是將這種「以時間易勞務」的去貨幣化交易本質，重新描述了一遍罷了。這難道還需要我解釋其巧妙之處嗎？
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