Why Platform Co-ops Should Be Open Co-ops

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        Bauwens, M. and Kostakis, V. (2017). Why Platform Co-ops Should Be Open Co-ops. In Schneider, N. and Scholz, T. (eds) Ours to Hack and to Own. OR Books, pp. 163-168

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[...] 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

—p.166 by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis 6 years, 11 months ago

[...] 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

—p.166 by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis 6 years, 11 months ago

Ours to Hack and to Own
by Nathan Schneider, Trebor Scholz (editors)

Ours to Hack and to Own
by Nathan Schneider, Trebor Scholz (editors)

Ours to Hack and to Own
by Nathan Schneider, Trebor Scholz (editors)