[P2P-F] The Crisis of Peer Production

Peer Production requires the barriers to entry be eliminated (or reduced to true Costs), but under those conditions, Profit approaches zero. Production cannot be fully Peer when the Investors require Profit as Return. But Peer Production could be partly for Profit and partly for Product... If at least some non-zero % of the Profits are treated as Payer Investment, the Users will incrementally gain co-ownership in the Sources needed for all the Production they require. What say ye, fellow peers? "" The existence of economic profits depends on the prevalence of barriers to entry: these stop other firms from entering into the industry and sapping away profits "" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_(economics)