Generosity begets wealth, was: [ox-en] Re: Next successful Free Product?
- From: "Franz Nahrada" <f.nahrada reflex.at>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:50:14 +0200
Stefan Merten schrieb am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 um 20:35 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]:
Well if they sponsor some special people then this bread is not a Free
Product. This to me seems more like a Genossenschaft [sorry, missing
the English term at the moment] to me which acts in solidarity
internally but has walls to the outside like every market participant.
Well, this model is also very close to the anarchist's paradise BTW.
"Genossenschaft " means cooperative.
The interesting thing is when "cooperatives become virtual", when they see
that they are *unlimited* by the very nature of their endavour.
They are not just built for common success on the market, but for
protection and the life maintainance of their members.
So if they can work more efficiently by working together - why should they
not?
Global Villages as concept are more or less local cooperatives or
communities that enter the Free Modes because it helps them function
better on a local level.
It is definitely worth thinking about how to shift the "market based"
cooperative model to a "life maintainance based" cooperative model and
propagate the simple fact that especially globalized markets are simply
no means of life maintainance any more, while "biomorph" cycles of mutual
supply are self-enforcing.
"As manufacturing techniques perfect the art of making copies plentiful,
value is carried by abundance, rather than scarcity, inverting traditional
business propositions. ....As resource scarcity gives way to abundance,
generosity begets wealth." (Kevin Kelly)
Franz
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