<div>Michel Bauwens wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> we need a new type of structure, market-oriented,</div><div>> profit-making, but not profit-maximising.</div><div><br></div><div>Profit is only necessary (should only occur) during</div>
<div>Growth - for it measures the Payer's lack of ownership</div><div>in the Means of Production, and can be 'balanced' by</div><div>treating that overpayment as an investment from that</div><div>Payer toward even more Means of Production - so that</div>
<div>each User gains the Use-Value property needed for</div><div>them to finally stop buying Product, but instead be</div><div>paying (whether with Sources or Skills) the Costs of</div><div>that Production "up front" while avoiding that usual</div>
<div>final transaction of purchase.</div><div><br></div><div>This causes Profit to be not just zero, but actually</div><div>UNDEFINED since each User/Owner does not need</div><div>to buy what he already owns.</div><div><br>
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