[p2p-research] so is there a new class?

[Michel Bauwens]

fascinating article ... insightful ...

but I think that 'conservative' is not the right word .. there is no
relationship with the christian right or neoconservatives ..

I think that for Gen Y, distinctions like working inside or outside the
system no longer make sense, they simply use what is there, pragmatically,
and create the new stuff that they need to realize themselves ... And
similarly for the conservative/progressive divide, they pick and choose
pragmatically

whether there is a new class is a complex issue

1) I think that a section of the owner class is reconfiguring to
participation-enablers

2) I think that a section of the 'producing' class is increasingly involved
in peer production and peer-informed practices and are structurally
different from industrial workers

3) that young people most clearly exemplify that trend

4) that p2p is a new life practice for everybody, to different degrees ...

There are now 800,000 free agents in the netherlands ... a very sizeable
number ....

I created an overview page here ...
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Class_Theories

Michel



Michel

On Jan 5, 2008 5:35 AM, Paul B. Hartzog <paulbhartzog at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/01/04/obama%e2%80%99s-victory-in-iowa-sheds-light-on-todays-workplace/
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> the emergence of a p2p class?
> or not?
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