From an old post of mine Miscellaneous on Status Updates, Distributed Intelligence & New Economies

The Internet is a landscape not a business. But as a landscape its qualities are unlike normal geographies since proximity is fundamentally redefined (farther in space and longer in time become closer and shorter respectively). This results in both greater productivity but also reduced opportunities to extract surplus value from the points along that chain from product to consumer since that chain no longer exists.

Further, the availability of information and communication technology COMBINED with the implications of the Ultimatum Game in a shrinking and interdependent world make vast imbalances in wealth and power much LESS viable than they once were. Which suggests that a minimal drawing right against the commons for basic necessities may now be a practical necessity… in addition to the moral imperative it’s always been.

I’m convinced that in order to re-invigorate a creative population its necessary to enable a direct peer-to-peer transactional capability between the individual creator and his/her audience (i.e. ‘customers’).

Currently much of this potential production is either lost completely or, in a sense appropriated by Corporate Internet entities who derive the return. (e.g. we are not Facebook’s customers…. we are Facebook’s cattle and they are the rancher selling us for slaughter.)

Hence Chagora as a necessary tool of disintermediation between the creator and the public.

(I believe this also ties into Douglas Rushkoff’s essay regarding the needed end of traditional conceptions of corporate ’employment’.)