In a piece I wrote a couple of years ago I stated:

“… in many cases, and as a result of the Internet’s unique nature, the value is actually produced from a distributed network which extends beyond the boundaries of the entity which focuses that value into marketable form and derives the market’s benefits.

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.”

And later in the same piece:

“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.”

Miscellaneous on Status Updates, Distributed Intelligence & New Economies
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2009/05/miscellaneous-on-status-updates.html

Economic ‘evolution’ requires the sort of ‘distributed resilience’ that you are also advocating. I’m convinced that the Commons-dedicated Account Network forms the root of a needed catalyst and tool for the self-organization and empowerment of new economic tribes.