[P2P-F] [Open Manufacturing] Re: The Open Factory - an Open Hardware factory in an Irish Ecovillage.

Mon Jul 18 20:14:25 CEST 2011

Michel Bauwens wrote:
> is this really what you are proposing Patrick??
>
> i.e. "causing competition between workers to approach maximum
> and wages to approach zero"

I observe this occurs when users control Sources.

This is why much Free Software work is done by
developers that receive no wages, but receive the
product itself as payment (scratch their own itch).

We must decrease the prices of the things workers
need as biological *INPUTS* instead of trying to
increase the prices of the things do as artistic
*OUTPUTS*.  We are attacking the wrong side of the
equation by trying to prop-up wages and profits.

We must develop a system that can take advantage
of this interesting result or we will forever be
protecting scarcity in the name of abundance...