[p2p-research] Is the p2p approach utopian?

[Alex Rollin]

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Alex

“It’s no longer possible for a country to collapse in isolation. Now
we all collapse.

The only path to stability is to equalize the consumption rates of the
first and developing world. Our dream is no longer possible in the new
world.” - Jared Diamond March 2010




On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have trouble understanding his position also, but a mistaken assumption
> that free culture is opposed to livelyhoods seems the key.
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>> > This is evidently not our approach. While we think that cooptation will
>> > happen, and is happening, we also see it as a necessary maturation of
>> > the
>> > new infrastructure of social production, of the new  sharing and
>> > commons-oriented consciousness, and these are trends which are to the
>> > advantage of the communities of peer producers and sharers.
>>

It's important to 'tag' things at 'co-opted,' though, in my opinion.
The co-opted thing may still be useful, but it is co-opted.  It is
simply to say that a more useful, complex, and sublime position has
been discovered, and quite often the entry fee is quite a bit higher.