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Christopher David has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It's called Arcade City 
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By Theodoros Rakopoulos Full title: Solidarity economy in contemporary Greece: ‘movementality’, economic democracy and social reproduction. In Hart, K. (Ed.
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Joshua Vial from Enspiral and Dev Academy shares thoughts on the art of entrepreneurship and his personal learning journey.
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Excerpted from Ursula Huws, who asks the question: “How should political economists understand the new phase of capitalism that is now reaching critical mass? It has several dimensions. First, it brings new areas of life within the orbit of capital, allowing profits to be made from activities that were previously freely shared. Companies like Airbnb, …
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Now here is an improbable idea:an activist hedge fund. Robin Hood Coop skims market investments to support commoners
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20 participants assembled to discuss what we mean when we talk about commons and create an action plan for Chicago’s Chamber of Commons.
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This is an important synthesis of ten years of research at the P2P Foundation, on the emerging practices of the new productive communities and the ethical entrepreneurial coalitions that create livelihoods for shared resources. I’m working with Neal Gorenflo of Shareable on a more accessible version for a broader public, but this one is for …
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Creating a decent, cryptocurrency-based basic income system now would give every potential beneficiary an incentive to see it grow.
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This entry was posted on Monday, October 5th, 2015 at 9:21 am and is filed under Collective Intelligence, Economy and Business, Ethical Economy, Featured Trend, Guest Post, P2P Architecture and Urbanism, P2P Development, P2P Money, Peer Property, Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Creating a decent, cryptocurrency-based basic income system now would give every potential beneficiary an incentive to see it grow.
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We cannot shy away from the need to democratize governments to ensure they represent public rather than private interests and actively protect the biosphere
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At the first International Workshop on the Sharing Economy Martijn Arets interviewed Juliet Schor about her keynote Will the sharing economy lead to a new form of hyper-capitalism or to a sustainable alternative? Very interesting and balanced intervention. Watch the video here:
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Is there a fundamental conflict at the heart of an industry that preaches collaboration but, due to being radically commercialised by venture capital money from Silicon Valley, also needs to profiteer from the goodwill of others if it’s to remain viable? Excerpted from Izabella Kaminska: “In Paris this week, at the Ouishare Fest, the great …
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Something similar is happening with the so-called “sharing” economy, popularized by the likes of Uber, AirBnb and Task Rabbit. While users still flock to these platforms, more and more people are starting to question the real benefits and the underlying motivations of the companies involved.
Robert Mylne's curator insight,
March 27, 2015 5:33 AM
As sharing sites like Uber, AirBnB and taskrabbit have given thousands of out of work or struggling people a chance at employment they are willing to defend it to the end. But people on the opposing side of this argument have also arisen. |
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This book chapter is an ethnography of a vibrant solidarity economy that spread throughout crisis-ridden Greece from early 2012 onwards.
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Video interview of co-founder Christopher David: “The former ‘illegal Uber driver’ Christopher David — who provides rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire residents when cab companies will not — has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It’s called Arcade City.” Watch the video here:
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One of the more complicated issues facing most commons is how to raise capital in the face of dominant systems of finance hostile to commoning.
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This is an article in the amazing Pirate Book! Marie Lechner explains: “Liang claims that piracy makes cultural products otherwise inaccessible to most of the population available to the greatest number of users, but also offers the possibility of an “infrastructure for cultural production.” The case of the parallel film industry based in Malegaon is …
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« We need to pioneer technical, organizational and financial forms that enable users to mutualize the benefits of their own online sharing ». Excerpted from David Bollier: “Our imaginations and aspirations must begin to shift their focus from open platforms to digital commons. Self-organized commoners must be able to control the terms of their interactions …
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Sent by email by Douglas Rushkoff: “My problem with Uber all along has been that it’s optimized for a really specific utility, but at the expense of others. It’s a bit like online universities, which offer courses isolated from the fabric of education or a learning community. That’s the nature of any digital business: you …
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What are the conditions for a more intentional technology movement?
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The legitimacy of a given social order rests on the legitimacy of its debts. In traditional cultures, debt was a glue that held society together.
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is it possible that Klein’s analysis is right on the politics and the solutions, but incomplete in terms of an overarching strategy for how to get there?
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“What has happened in effect is that though the processing capability of a “wired” customer or service supplier has gone up dramatically, this typically has not facilitated any major societal value shift or new societal network emergence. If anything, the history of the Internet since c 2010 is an increasing walling off of what were …
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David de Ugarte interviews his mentor, Juan Urrutia, during OuiShareFest 2015 about on his 20 year effort to create an Economics of Abundance.
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The irony is that, for all the talk of giving and sharing, this is potentially an even more egocentric worldview than that associated with the market
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