[p2p-research] trends ? : "Corporate Dropouts" towards Open diy ? ...

Sat Oct 17 19:40:04 CEST 2009

I do think the large corporate machine is leaking, from largely anecdotal
evidence and talking to HR managers, complaining that current cohorts of
graduate are much less interested in working for large MNO's ... It's
leaking from above, through the need for meaningful work, and from below,
through precarity ...

But there is no transition 'kit', though a few successfull open projects
generate an economy around them, the process is haphazard and leaves many on
the wayside.

Peer production currently has zero solidarity mechanisms, and is not viable
as an independent solution, it only exists in synergy with the world of
monetized physical production, or associated with chosen or obligated
precarity,

Michel

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow, after having a look at this link on "Globalization and Income
> Distribution <http://www.nber.org/papers/w14643.pdf>"
> (  pdf : http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/wp699.pdf - see more with excerpts
> further below )
>
> I ask myself *how local economic systems based on diy open manufacturing
> would impact allocation **of skills ?*
> *
> *
> *And how this compares or interacts with current globalized cognitive
> capitalism.*
> *
> *
> *Would there also be concentrations of skilled workers ? ( such as current
> concentrations  in certain businesses ? )*
> *
> *
> *Is there a potential scenario for a brain drain from corporations to
> intentional peer producing networks ?*
> *
> *
> *Is such process already happening ?*
> ( or is it currently mainly from corporations to self-owned small companies
> ? )
> *
> *
> *What are the alliances we are currently seeing ? *
> *
> *
> Can part-time , non-paid ( in mainstream money ) "hobby" work
> in open, diy, collaborative convergence spaces
> become an *argument for long term material security of the participating
> peer* towards he's/her family ?
>
> *Do we have a "Quit Work Slavery" Kit ready for use ?*
> *
> *
> *---*
> *
> *
> Hacker spaces seem to be convergence spaces for open source programmers,
> and possibly more and more other artists,
> open manufacturing, diy permaculture, ... ?
>
> Can we expect a "Massive Corporate Dropout"... to drain into such diy
> convergence and interaction spaces ?
>
> *Can "Corporate Dropouts" help financing new open p2p infrastructures ?*
>
> Is there an increase of part-time "Corporates", working part time in open
> p2p ?
>
> Would such a transition , potentially part time "co-working / co-living "
> space be a convergence "model" and scenario some of us would consider
> working on ?
>
> Do some of us already experience such lifestyle ?
> *
> *
> *
> *
> *some more context *:
>
> I remember that one of the difficulties google's human resources department
> is having,
> is that even though they may be offering a context that makes google listed
> as one of the best employers,
> some of their skilled employees sometimes prefer leaving their job at
> google to set up their own business.
>
> http://delicious.com/deliciousdante/google+jobs
>
> " Though Google almost always wins talent wars with the likes of Microsoft
> and Yahoo, its twin HR demons are *startups and retirement*. "
>
> after searching the web, I notice its called "*Corporate Dropouts*".
>
> In a 1993 article :
>
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1563/is_n2_v12/ai_13990649/
>
> excerpt : *" Why work for someone else when you can work for yourself?
> That's what a lot of people are asking these days, ..."*
> *
> *
> It leads me back to the "vectors" we may have mentioned in a previous
> thread ( the VW dresden thread , on p2pr list  ) :
>
> *What vectors motivate us ? *
> **( how much does a need for security, and all other needs in maslow's
> hierarchy, influence our choices ? )
> *What lifestyle do we choose for ?*
> *What form of governance do we choose for,*
> *and what can currently empower ( or dis-empower ) such choices ? *
> *
> *
>
> I guess it also related to a face to face discussion I had with a small
> group of people in Brussels following the initiative of Manfred - minutes :
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdJHqFvEd3IfZGd2enZxZGRfNTBjNXpubmNtaw&hl=en
>
> which lead Jaime to share links related to "Why do high potentials avoid
> large organizations ?"
>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/imaging-the-hub/browse_thread/thread/a740100179528454/caf7f264da3234a7?lnk=gst&q=jaime#caf7f264da3234a7
>
> ---
>
> I personally observe some of my friends working for money as little as
> possible, sometimes on or two months a year, and spend the rest of their
> time working on their own projects.
>
> I realize that the free time they have makes them reflect and make choices
> about their lifestyle and what they wish to contribute to.
>
> It also reminds me of this link to the " Disciplined Minds<http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/>" book that one of you shared with me, or through the list :
>
> " Jeff Schmidt shows that professional work is inherently political, and
> that professionals are hired to subordinate their own vision and maintain
> strict ideological discipline. "
>
> -----------------------------------
> -----------------------------------
>
> I feel like leaving some excerpts of this economic overview :
>
> *
> *
> *"Globalization is often thought to have increased inequality. The model
> of*
> *this paper delivers the stark result that globalization raises inequality
> in both*
> *North and South. Globalization is also commonly thought to have increased
> *
> *personal income risk."*
> *
> *
> *http://www.nber.org/papers/w14643.pdf*
> *
> *
> *Pdf available on :*
> *
> *
> *http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/wp699.pdf*
> * Globalization and Income Distribution: A Specific Factors Continuum
> Approach *
> *
> *
> *  Some more excerpts :
>
>    " resource reallocation between firms within sectors in this paper is
> driven by a Darwinian gale blowing through the sectoral factor market. When
> paired with wage bargaining, the model can explain why larger and more pro-
> ductive firms pay higher wages for skilled labor. "
> " A more novel result shows that in the presence of aggregate productivity
> shocks, globalization reduces the variance of the factoral terms of trade
> and
> hence the dispersion of personal incomes."
>
> "   Globalization widens income inequality
> in each country, raising the top, lowering the bottom and narrowing the
> middle. Viewed ex ante, the model formalizes the popular sense that per-
> sonal incomes are more risky in globalizing world with purely idiosyncratic
> productivity shocks.
>     When productivity shocks include an economy-wide component that shifts
> relative productivity between countries, there is a countervailing effect
> on in-
> come risk. "
>
> "     Section 1 presents the basic production model. Section 2 derives the
> global equilibrium of the two trading countries. Section 3 deals with the
> equilibrium comparative statics of the model. Section 4 derives the
> distribu-
> tional implications. Section 5 derives efficient ex ante allocation of the
> specific
> factor. Section 6 analyzes heterogeneous firms within sectors. Sections 7
> and
> 8 conclude with speculation on extensions to dynamics and empirical work. "
>
> "      A key distributional property of the model is that the average
> skill pre-
> mium gK /w - 1 is independent of international equilibrium forces. The av-
> erage skill premium rises with the skill bias of technology (α) and falls
> with
> relative skill abundance (K/L). The wage rate is given by
>                            w = gL = α(K/L)1-α G "
>
> "       More general neoclassical
> production functions in the specific factors setting imply that the average
> skill premium may rise or fall in both North and South due to globaliza tion,(*10)
> depending on whether the average skill intensity of production rises
> or falls. The Appendix develops the details and argues that with CES pro-
> duction functions the skill premium ordinarily rises (falls) as the
> elasticity of
> substitution is less (greater) than one.
> (*10)      Linkage between openness and capital accumulation or technology
> will also violate the
> invariance property. "
>
>
> *
>
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