On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Stefan Merten
<smerten@oekonux.de> wrote:
Hi Michel!
Well, I really feel sorry for you. You really must be desperate that
you now feel the need to use offending means like posting private
conversations to mailing lists without even asking for permission. I
know you from times when you would not have done things like that :-( .
Yesterday Michel Bauwens wrote:
> needless to say Stefan, I'm really disappointed by the personal attitude
> that shines true in this reply of yours,
That is because I was interested in you as a person. Sorry for this.
> and the refusal for a normal
> conversation with facts, arguments (feelings are also okay, but loading shit
> on another person is not okay).
We had a normal conversation like you described. You took that normal
conversation personal and left it.
But probably you consider your contributions to these threads
http:///www.oekonux.org/journal/list/archive/msg00701.html
http:///www.oekonux.org/journal/list/archive/msg00752.html
as a normal conversation. Indeed the last conversation we had and I
would have considered normal was not of this type. Seems like that
were better days...
> So let me be clear that I'm not responding to you, as I have no desire to
> continue this type of exchange, but for the community. Since I could only
> discern one cogent counter-argument, here is my reply to that one:
>
> * <in fact all peer production projects *are* self-sustaining. That
> is part of their positive feedback cycle. Probably you are talking of
> something else.>
>
> Peer production projects can be collectively sustainable by relying on a
> continuous stream on voluntary contributions,
That was my point.
> but they do presently not
> sustain their members,
Of course they do in the areas of the peer production projects. And
besides the members they sustain lots and lots of other persons.
> who are usually paid by for-profit companies or as
> freelancers on a marketplace ... i.e. the commons is not independently
> sustainable for its members;
In other words: The new principle didn't replace the old one
completely yet. Of course not.
When capitalism started with textile industry the feudal structures
for producing food have not been replaced immediately. Demanding what
you demand ignores history.
> this is why I propose that commoners/peer
> producers create their own structures for a more autonomous cycle of
> reproduction.
And they do - by extending peer production. We can see this
transformation on a daily basis. Isn't this great? At this point no
additional measure seems to be necessary. And if this changes at some
point it should be measures which are compatible with peer production.
Grüße
Stefan