P2P and the Commons as a Dual Boot strategy (1): David de Ugarte

via David de Ugarte and lasindias:

“The metaphor is simple: society now runs on operating system that is frail and inadequate to the demands of those who live in it. Different groups and tendencies, in parallel, are trying to develop new economic models. To the extent that they do — and it’s true that they/we are doing it, though it’s not (yet) widespread — it will be established as an almost personal, or at least communitarian option: What development model do we want in our city? What model of life and work do I want to follow?.

It would be, and is, a gradual sort of dual boot in which both models would coexist, the traditional one based on large scales, and the new ones based on a productive economy fed by distributed networks, long-range technologies, free knowledge, and cultural change. These elements are present now, all arond us, though they are only hegemonic in concrete aspects.

The basic idea is that the development of these economic alternatives is going to parallel the development of confederal forms of work, but also of social coverage and relationships between identities. The path is, as always, to build, to create a new reality, not to wait for a political change of whatever kind to reorder everything from top to bottom to fit our taste.”

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