Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy - 0 views
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In the emerging institutional model of peer production
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we can distinguish an interplay between three partners
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a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design;
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There is a clear institutional division of labour between these three players
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a set of "for-benefit institutions' which manage the 'infrastructure of cooperation'
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an enterpreneurial coalition that creates market value on top of that commons;
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because democracy, and the market, and hierarchy, are modes of allocation of scarce resources
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Is there perhaps a new model of power and democracy co-evolving out of these new social practices, that may be an answer to the contemporary crisis of democracy
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we are witnessing a new model for the state. A 'P2P' state, if you will.
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The post-democratic logic of community
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these communities are not democracies
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Can we also learn something about the politics of this new mode of value creation
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has achieved capacities both for global coordination, and for the small group dynamics that are characteristic of human tribal forms and that it does this without 'command and control'! In fact, we can say that peer production has enabled the global scaling of small-group dynamics.
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Everyone can contribute without permission, but such a priori permissionlessness is matched with mechanisms for 'a posteriori' communal validation, where those with recognized expertise and that are accepted by the community, the so-called 'maintainers' and the 'editors', decide
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These decisions require expertise, not communal consensus
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tension between inclusiveness of participation and selection for excellence
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allowing for maximum human freedom compatible with the object of cooperation. Indeed, peer production is always a 'object-oriented' cooperation, and it is the particular object that will drive the particular form chosen for its 'peer governance' mechanisms
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The main allocation mechanism in such project, which replaces the market, the hierarchy and democracy, is a 'distribution of tasks'
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no longer a division of labor between 'jobs', and the mutual coordination works through what scientist call 'stigmergic signalling'
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work environment is designed to be totally open and transparent
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every participating individual can see what is needed, or not and decide accordingly whether to undertake his/her particular contribution
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this new model
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Such communities are truly poly-archies and the type of power that is held in them is meritocratic, distributed, and ad hoc.
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And they have to be, because an undemocratic institution would also discourage contributions by the community of participants.
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disagree, there are many ways to ethically distribute governance, not just democracy
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Hence, an increased exodus of productive capacities, in the form of direct use value production, outside the existing system of monetization, which only operates at its margins.
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Where there is no tension between supply and demand, their can be no market, and no capital accumulation
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Facebook and Google users create commercial value for their platforms, but only very indirectly and they are not at all rewarded for their own value creation.
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Since what they are creating is not what is commodified on the market for scarce goods, there is no return of income for these value creators
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This means that social media platforms are exposing an important fault line in our system
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If you did not contribute, you had no say, so engagement was and is necessary.
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⁃ At the core of value creation are various commons, where the innovations are deposited for all humanity to share and to build on ⁃ These commons are enabled and protected through nonprofit civic associations, with as national equivalent the Partner State, which empowers and enables that social production ⁃ Around the commons emerges a vibrant commons-oriented economy undertaken by different kinds of ethical companies, whose legal structures ties them to the values and goals of the commons communities, and not absentee and private shareholders intent of maximising profit at any cost
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the citizens deciding on the optimal shape of their provisioning systems.
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Today, it is proto-mode of production which is entirely inter-dependent with the system of capital
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Is there any possibility to create a really autonmous model of peer production, that could create its own cycle of reproduction?
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contribute
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"ad hoc": perhaps based on context, needs and everyone's understanding of the situation
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and whose mission is the support of the commons and its contributors
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In this way, the social reproduction of commoners would no longer depend on the accumulation cycle of capital, but on its own cycle of value creation and realization
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Phyles are mission-oriented, purpose-driven, community-supportive entities that operate in the market, on a global scale, but work for the commons.
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peer production license, which has been proposed by Dmytri Kleiner.
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Thijs Markus writes so eloquently about Nike in the Rick Falkvinge blog, if you want to sell $5 shoes for $150 in the West, you better have one heck of a repressive IP regime in place.
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Hence the need for SOPA/PIPA , ACTA'S and other attempts to criminalize the right to share.
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An economy of scope exists between the production of two goods when two goods which share a CommonCost are produced together such that the CommonCost is reduced.
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shared infrastructure costs
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2) The current system beliefs that innovations should be privatized and only available by permission or for a hefty price (the IP regime), making sharing of knowledge and culture a crime; let's call this feature, enforced 'artificial scarcity'.
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1) Our current system is based on the belief of infinite growth and the endless availability of resources, despite the fact that we live on a finite planet; let's call this feature, runaway 'pseudo-abundance'.
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So what are the economies of scope of the new p2p age? They come in two flavours: 1) the mutualizing of knowledge and immaterial resources 2) the mutualizing of material productive resources
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how does global governance look like in P2P civilization?
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conflicts between contributors
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are not decided by authoritarian fiat, but by 'negotiated coordination'.
