Comments on: Juliet Schor: Plenitude https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/juliet-schor-plenitude/2011/11/03 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:03:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Todd S. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/juliet-schor-plenitude/2011/11/03/comment-page-1#comment-486646 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:03:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=20661#comment-486646 I believe existing trends toward decreased employment, and the exhaustion of both state- and employer-based welfare states, will have precisely this effect: of shifting social safety net functions to primary social units like neighborhood cohousing projects, urban communes, extended family compounds, lodges, friendly societies, professional guilds, and the like.

I think that, as I interpret that you also do based on what you say here, that these things would eliminate – or at least greatly diminish – the need for a “social safety net” at all insofar as we think of this in an institutional context. Schor seems to be saying that there would still need to be some kind of centralized, abstract entity doling out the “safety”.

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