hi Karl, one remark about open source currencies ... your reasoning applies there was well,

for example, indeed Bitcoin is designed to be a scarce, hoarded and speculative currency, but other complementary currencies are designed for equity, such as Time Dollars,

so neither openness, not peer to peer architectures are by themselves sufficient,

I think for those that believe in equity and justice, we need to find the right ways to critique hyper-capitalist solutions such as the one regarding education,http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools

I'd like to use your remark in the blog as well?

Michel

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Karl Robillard <krobillard@san.rr.com> wrote:
On Monday, August 01, 2011 09:47:15 pm Michel Bauwens wrote:
> It seems to me there is an emerging version of 'open' that is a
> hyper-neoliberal one, or perhaps right-wing libertarian,
>
> see for example,
> http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools
>
> which must be about the most awful proposal for reforming education that
> I've seen so far ...


I usually associate openness with the concept of equal access, but that's a
bad thing to do.  As Martin and Devin were pointing out in another thread,
open designs do not guarantee access to resources.  It's why Stallman prefers
the word 'free' rather than 'open', right?  Being open is just one part of the
equation.  We must articulate the others.

Openness and peer-based archetectures provide opportunity for equitable
outcomes, but its the choices of people who engage with open systems that
ultimately decide this.  Openness in one aspect of society does not mean
openness in others.  A propertarian will try to leverage an open system to
obtain more property.  This is why I don't really see the point of open-source
currencies.  Replacing one monetary system with another doesn't change the
underlying dynamics of domination.  We could also have open-source atom bombs.
Intent and outcomes matter.


-Karl

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