[p2p-research] against human rentals

[Samuel Rose]

This is another way of saying that a core driver of local economies is
cooperation and collaboration. Both are usually overlooked as a
component of the ecology of local economies.

The reason why is people lack a literacy of cooperation and collaboration

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, 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.
>
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