[p2p-research] Co-Owned Public Peer Property

[Michel Bauwens]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > the best way to test your ideas is through practice,
> >
> > and unless you are born rich, most people who start business start with
> > looking for capital and credit, either by investors or financial
> > institutions, or with people willing to go in the same direction as you.
>
> My ideas require the investors either understand the plan (go in the
> same direction) to treat Profit as Consumer Investment, or must be
> Consumers themselves (in which case they don't need to understand, for
> they are then paid in "at cost" product).
>
> But since most people I talk to tend to believe Profit must be
> distributed to the Workers as some sort of bonus, it has been very
> difficult for me to find anyone to collaborate with.


I understand that difficulty, since it is also mine. I favour a system that
integrates both consumers and workers, not consumer/users alone.




>
>
>
> > but ask yourself this question: say, seven years from now, would you
> still
> > want to come up with the same arguments, and not have advanced your
> ideals
> > in any concrete way?
>
> How is this different from anyone else posting here, or any article cited?


it is no different ...



>
>
> I agree we must make action (and soon), but I don't understand why you
> confine such advice to me alone.



perhaps because I care?

Michel;



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