Services thinking: a services framework
Thinking more about a services lifestyle. I think the first thing that’s needed is a way of evaluating which of the multitude of possessions one owns could be converted into a service. Seems to me that it’s the things you use very infrequently that make the best candidates. And then from there, it’s the things that aren’t highly individualized which make even better candidates.
While I’ve taken a bit of a tongue-in-cheek stab at breaking these out above, I think the somewhat depressing truth about most of what we own is that we actually use it fairly infrequently. Instead, because we tend to be creatures of habit, our lives probably follow fairly predictable paths for the vast majority of the time, yet we continue to pay for things that we don’t actually need or use.
What’s needed is a digital service that could help you assess all of your assets within this framework. If it were tied into your financial services, it could dynamically calculate the potential savings you’d be able to achieve, as well as letting you know how many more experiences you could afford as a result.