When users OWN the means of production none of these problems occur.

Do you think users cannot afford to own the means of production? They already pay for it when they buy products. The only difference is that they pay *after* production instead of *before*. That can be solved by encouraging users that can afford to buy early to pre-purchase the product. But they won’t just be buying the product, they will become part-owners in the company. The return on their investment is ‘product’ instead of ‘profit’. Any late-comers who pay full price (both costs and profit) become part-owners in the amount they paid above cost. In other words, profit must be treated as an investment from the user who paid it to insure such disasters as described do not happen because the current user base will always be in control.

How strange is our stance that all production must be AGAINST the very people it pretends to be FOR.

Production should be for USE value, not for the work it takes to accomplish it. Work is a cost we want to minimize, don’t we?

What are our goals? Does peer production require user price remain above owner costs just as in Capitalism?