by
Nathan Schneider,
Trebor Scholz
(editors)
[...] a chief ambition of fostering a more commons-centric economy is to recapture surplus value, which is now feeding speculative capital, and re-invest it in the development of open, ethical productive communities. [...] Platform cooperatives must not merely replicate false scarcities and unnecessary waste; they must become open.
after all, closed business models are based on "artificial scarcity to extract rents" (p164), either legally or technologically