[p2p-research] against human rentals

[Michel Bauwens]

yes, that sounds like a good transitional approach,

by the way, I think that generally speaking, peer to peer differs and  moves
away from the classic socialist approach by insisting on the maximum amount
of personal sovereignty and control of the means of production ... i.e. it
distrusts collective ownership that can be appropriated by institutions and
the state, in favour of both individual and collectivist formst that are
under maximum control of the individual who can freely invest or withdraw
his productive resources,

Michel

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/5/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree with your points,
> >
> > my main issue is that in the current system, self-employment is rarely
> > better than wage labour, as it replaces wage dependency with market
> > dependency ... except for the few that make it, self-employment is a very
> > hard and insecure path, though of course with obvious advantages ..
>
> True.  But the lower the cost of the means of production, the less
> onerous market dependency becomes.  The lower the cost of the means of
> production, the less overhead there is to service, which means the
> revenue stream required to avoid going in a hole dwindles to nothing,
> and revenue becomes free and clear.  Not only the revolution in
> low-cost tools, but the effect of the network revolution in destroying
> overhead that comes from the transaction costs of administration and
> coordination, are reversing the main cause that brought about
> large-scale factory production and the wage system in the first place.
>
> That's not to say that a worker can reliably support himself through
> self-employment alone, without fear of periods of slow business.  But
> it means he can incrementally shift a portion of his labor to
> self-employment while keeping the day job at reduced hours, without
> undertaking any significant debt or incurring major costs that require
> steady business to service.
>
> --
>  Kevin Carson
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> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>
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