Comments on: Where crowdfunding needs to go (1). By Felix Stalder. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/where-crowdfunding-needs-to-go-1-by-felix-stalder/2012/06/16 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:36:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Tom Crowl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/where-crowdfunding-needs-to-go-1-by-felix-stalder/2012/06/16/comment-page-1#comment-492068 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:36:36 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24539#comment-492068 I’m fairly certain the Commons-dedicated account network forms the root for this sort of structure… that the account itself has purposes reaching beyond funding (and,in fact an account need not be continually funded or even funded to be opened)… and that moreover a viable transaction system, monetized OUTSIDE the transaction… and especially enabling a safe and secure microtransaction… especially in speech and culturally related areas… (this transaction’s viability is an essential in a scaled social body)…

I also suspect that it can play an important role in something Doc Searl (author of Cluetrain Manifesto) calls VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) putting the USER rather than the platform or vendor at the center of that relationship.

Personally I believe this structure embodies a ‘theory of mind’ for the Commons in what has become an all too often adversarial relationship with exploitative sub-groups within it.

It brings some powerful forces ‘back from lunch’… and suggests to them that a new relationship is now in place.

Issues in Scaling Civlization: The Monsters-from-the-Id Dilemma
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2012/06/issues-in-scaling-civlization-monsters.html

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