https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-the-distribution-of-everything/2006/01/13 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-the-distribution-of-everything/2006/01/13/comment-page-1#comment-35 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:36:29 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/?p=23#comment-35 […] – on the distribution of capital (and everything else) […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-the-distribution-of-everything/2006/01/13/comment-page-1#comment-28 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:19:02 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/?p=23#comment-28 […] As I have already argued in the entry on the distribution of everything, for participation and peer to peer modes to flourish, we need to distribute education, the means of production (networked computers and desktop manufacturing), but also financial capital. […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/towards-the-distribution-of-everything/2006/01/13/comment-page-1#comment-23 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:55:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/?p=23#comment-23 t think there is any doubt that P2P social processes are everywhere springing up, both within and without the market. Some old market and state forces opposed it, some other forces partially support it while trying to subsume it totally under the market. I see however, no realistic way in which a series of processes which are more productive, in certain circumstances, than firms; more democratically governed, and more efficiently distributed, can be stopped in the long run. P2P arises wherever distributed networks are adopted, and is dependent on such distribution: the distribution of intellect, a function on the general educational level of the population and the network infrastructures; the distribution of fixed capital and the means of production, i.e. the general availability of computers and means of desktop manufacturing; and the distribution of financial capital. [...]]]> […] I don’t think there is any doubt that P2P social processes are everywhere springing up, both within and without the market. Some old market and state forces opposed it, some other forces partially support it while trying to subsume it totally under the market. I see however, no realistic way in which a series of processes which are more productive, in certain circumstances, than firms; more democratically governed, and more efficiently distributed, can be stopped in the long run. P2P arises wherever distributed networks are adopted, and is dependent on such distribution: the distribution of intellect, a function on the general educational level of the population and the network infrastructures; the distribution of fixed capital and the means of production, i.e. the general availability of computers and means of desktop manufacturing; and the distribution of financial capital. […]

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