[P2P-F] [Commoning] new capitalism and commoning

Tue Feb 8 17:54:46 CET 2011

On 08/02/11 16:26, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> - *you do not  care for children with free software commons, you do not eat
> with it, you do not make love or bury the dead.
> 
> literally of course you are right, but in may other ways, no, in fact,
> software <is> a universal enabler, and, , it makes a crucial importance 'in
> real life'; in fact, it affects the care for children (through advances in
> medical knowledge, increased autonomy of patients, reachability of
> disadvantaged populations)

The WHO estimates that 85% of the world's population rely on traditional
medicine. The major threat to traditional medicine according to many -
and this I have found to be a general consensus among the people I have
worked with in the Amazon - is foreign language, education, medicine,
technology and all the side effects (land grabs etc.) of the production
of these.