Republished from Johan Nygren: Source – https://medium.com/@resilience_me/the-wealth-sharing-network-resilience-9c37cda519e3 The incentives behind the wealth sharing network Resilience is the same as the behavioral psychology underlying the wealth sharing platform Give Directly, a voluntary wealth redistribution platform that recently received $25 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna. Basically, people want to share and… Continue reading
Date archives "September 2015"
Direct Economy and abundance
The Direct Economy puts us in a world that goes far beyond collaborative consumption or SMEs empowered by technology: we’re talking about a world where production and community are joined and knowledge replaces capital. Around the year 2010, John Robb, known for his efforts in the theoretical development of resilience, decided to develop a… Continue reading
Events – Fostering a culture of Cooperation for the Commons in Ireland
Fri 18th Sept Coop Culture part of the Galway Culture Night ‘Co-op Culture’ is a participatory art and cultural event to experience, explore and celebrate themes on the Commons and our Cooperative Cultural Heritage. Everyone is welcome to share his/her visions, ideas and cooperative and commons-related practices, as the starting point of a mobilization to… Continue reading
The evolution of automation and the shrinking role of capital
“As production ‘demassifies’ and is itself commodified we see Capital trying to capture and enclose–in a rather desperate scrambling fashion–other forms of value; IP. We see this general assault on the First Sale Doctrine and the rights of the consumer through the exploit of copyright law. We see companies obsessing over brand identity as if… Continue reading
Turning Uber into a worker cooperative
Excerpted from Seth Ackerman: “The simplest way, as I pointed out in response to Weisenthal’s query, would be for cities to adopt regulatory codes that only permit ride-sharing by worker-owned firms. Uber would then seamlessly become a software provider. This sort of restriction isn’t unprecedented. Many states forbid corporations from engaging in certain kinds of… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Cultures of Anyone
http://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/index.php/mlo/issue/view/16 Cultures of Anyone: Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis (Luis Moreno-Caballud) Cultures of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Can Capitalism Reform Itself and Move Towards a P2P Society?
By Jean Lievens Full Paper here Summary The first Dutch book on P2P Save the World by Michel Bauwens had a good reception in Flanders, but there were also some criticisms. In this article, we examine two criticisms of the book: the feasibility of an unconditional basic income within the present system and the possibility… Continue reading
Netarchical Platforms are not sharing, and they are not networks, just new commons-enclosing firms
“What has happened in effect is that though the processing capability of a “wired” customer or service supplier has gone up dramatically, this typically has not facilitated any major societal value shift or new societal network emergence. If anything, the history of the Internet since c 2010 is an increasing walling off of what were… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: The Exit from Capitalism has Already Begun
* Article: The Exit from Capitalism has Already Begun. André Gorz. Translated by Chris Turner. Cultural Politics: an International Journal, Volume 6, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 5-14(10). Berg Publishers Excerpted from an introduction by Chris Turner: “Though hailed at his death by Nicolas Sarkozy (of all people) as “a major intellectual figure of… Continue reading
10 things the p2p ecosystem needs in order to thrive
The mainstream financial ecosystem is broken. Banks are not trusted at all. Although Bitcoin enthusiasts are running around with their own speculative digital currency, will we emerge with an ecosystem that is truly peer to peer or simply a new version of the same system we have today, with the same financial elite at the… Continue reading
People Powered Money
“Money holds many mysteries. Where does it come from? How did it evolve? Who creates it and controls it? Why do we never seem to have enough? People Powered Money helps to unravel the mysteries behind our every-day understanding of money to provide practitioners and policy-makers alike with the currency innovation advice and tools needed… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action
* Conference Paper: Iaione, Christian. Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action: A Tribute to Prof. Elinor Ostrom, Second Thematic Conference of the IASC. From the Abstract: “”Where does a person go if she lives in a city, she is not fortunate enough to have got a garden and she needs going into a… Continue reading
Abundance in the history of Art
For many centuries, the most important thing in an artistic work wasn’t beauty but its message and functionality. So, it’s interesting to take a stroll through the representations of abundance through the history of Art. Gombrich said in the first chapter of his History of Art, that when analyzing a work, it’s not a matter… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation as a collective ‘organic intellectual’
I explain this at the start of this 8-minute interview done at the Ouishare Fest. It also covers the theme, how to re-organize politics and policy in a context in which the power of salaried labor is shrinking in the Western countries. Watch the video here: Here is a summary transcript of the questions and… Continue reading
Ten years of co-working: the founders share their experiences
This is excerpted from a long collective interview with Cat Johnson for Shareable magazine: The first question, excerpted in full here, was asked to the founders of various key coworking initiatives: * Shareable: What are the most surprising things you’ve see from the coworking movement in the last 10 years? Alex Hillman: I think about… Continue reading
The tortuous path towards abundance
The path towards abundance is no longer a proposal or a utopian dream. It is a real path, an economic and social movement taking place in parallel to the decomposition of the old ways, and which offers us a new promise to overcome scarcity, war and collapse. For two decades now, it’s a rare month… Continue reading