[P2P-F] [Open Manufacturing] are hackers complicit in their exploitation?

Mon Jul 11 16:48:31 CEST 2011

thanks paul, sharing your comments with the list

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Paul D. Fernhout <
pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

> On 7/9/11 8:21 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>> see item 2 from the moral economies conference,
>> http://www.moraleconomies.**leeds.ac.uk/abstracts/<http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/abstracts/>
>>
>> links on the authors and their thesis would be appreciated,
>>
>
> Interesting, and there is some truth to it, but here is the bigger picture
> as I see it, that we are seeing the balance shift between five different
> sorts of economic transactions and our technology and culture changes:
>  "Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and
> Theft"
>  http://www.pdfernhout.net/**media/FiveInterwovenEconomies.**pdf<http://www.pdfernhout.net/media/FiveInterwovenEconomies.pdf>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=4vK-M_e0JoY<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY>
>
> Unless an analysis looks at how all five economies are changing, it will be
> incomplete. For example, the work of these hackers is increasing people's
> ability for local subsistence, as well as strengthening the gift economy and
> related new peer-to-peer networks and governance, so both of those changes
> diminish the need for an exchange economy, which in turn will ultimately
> diminish the power of big exchange-oriented and artificial-scarcity-oriented
> and addictive-oriented corporations in most people's lives.
>
> So, while there is some truth that companies build on gifts by hackers in
> proprietary ways, there is a lot more going on.
>
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
> ====
> The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of
> abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.
>


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