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[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] Hi, are you aware of Kevin Carson's brilliant book on organization theory, it has a lot of data showing how, in a non-coercive environment, local production, and thus more crafts-oriented, would be very productive. It's a little comparable to organic agriculture, which is, if I'm not mistaken, on average more than 20% more productive (in food per acre)_ than green-revolution-industrial-agriculture (which is more productive in $ per man-hour), and thus gets de-selected by the coercive overall system. If we, as Sam Rose, suggest, we can create alternative interlocking SME-based production networks, this may start to change, Michel On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:16 PM, CTVN <coreteam vodes.net> wrote:
hello Michel, perhaps if the open hardware movement takes route, and startsre-envisioning not just what we make, but also how we make it, there might be a return to craftsmanship ... a lot of repetitive tasks are linked to the current industrial model, and there's evidence that peopled liked to work on crafts and gardening in the past,funny that u mention craftmanship as im doing that those days. right now it looks quite promising from an economic point of view, but im doubtful that this is a solution for many others. its just not cost efficient to produce systematically. this of course offers no short term solution,also, there are boring tasks in software/design/knowledge also, and I understand that successful projects 'force' their contributors to do a minimal amount of tedious tasks to have their 'patches' accepted,personally, i dont have a problem if there is some sensible, light weight pressure to do necessary things which help the overall project. but to me it seems that the relation of tedious vs. non-tedious tasks is by far higher in the case of industrial (re)production and distribution (carrying furniture aint that much fun) compared to the (re)production and distribution of information goods. if this indeed correct, one can increase the pressure to do tedious jobs. but that doesnt sound too good... _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: projekt oekonux.de
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