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(DIR) Post #AIh2pZ4R8Ig6Cm5qYS by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:32:01Z
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Notes on "Ours to Hack and to Own", edited by @ntnsndr and @scholzt_newschooledu #platformcooperativism #coops
(DIR) Post #AIh2pZr0DjWgdOodFo by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:33:02Z
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"Before we get started, let's make sure we are talking about the same thing: shared governance and shared ownership of the #Internet's levers of power -- it's #platforms and #protocols. Democratic ownership and governance are pillars of what #cooperativism refers to, both here and historically; without these, the word rings hollow."
(DIR) Post #AIh2paXXfZYOlKibYm by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:34:14Z
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"Second, this book calls for a process, not another trick of technological solutionism. Platform #cooperativism will not come about simply through a few killer apps: it will require a different kind of ecosystem with appropriate forms of finance, law, policy, and culture to support the development of democratic online enterprises."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pb6dZ5cuWB8dGK by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:34:32Z
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"This means challenging the #cooperative movement to meet the opportunities of the platform economy, and challenging the platform economy to overcome its obsession with short-term profits for the few."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pbs8iTcktVMZIu by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:36:05Z
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" #coops come in all shapes and sizes. They fail less than other businesses, and they often pay better wages except to talk executives. #Democracy, it turns out, works the word can be less lucrative for those just trying to get rich. People in charge are harder to swindle."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pcV8NUoeqRbi5I by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:37:25Z
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"Cooperative #enterprises of the past and present have relied on two kinds of strategies to gain a foothold in economies and cultures premised on #competition. One is the competitive advantage to be found in cooperation-- the ability to succeed where conventional markets fail, for instance, and the power latent in solidarity."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pdBfpKqMyNVgOG by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:37:51Z
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"The second is when the rules of the system are changed to support more cooperative practices -- especially through governments that see the value in cooperative enterprise enough to encourage and fund. For platform cooperativism to flourish, I suspect we need both of these."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pdqRNlSB0oaEvw by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:39:25Z
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"Yet the rules of the system remained very much tilted against #cooperativism. This needs to change. Government should recognize that cooperative platforms will mean more wealth staying in their communities and serving their constituents. Rather than trying (and failing) to say no to the likes of #uber, platform #coops are something public institutions can say yes to."
(DIR) Post #AIh2peY2leKdC2z3tg by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:40:39Z
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"We need laws that make it easier to form and finance coops, as well as public investment and Business Development stuff that extractive businesses yet all the time. This also means thinking differently about the incumbent. The #Facebook's, #Google's, and #Ubers aren't just regular companies anymore. Their business models are based on how dependent so many of us are on them. Their ubiquity, in turn, is what makes them useful. They're becoming public #utilities."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pfKFsOtdbZXZ2m by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:41:40Z
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"The less we have a choice about whether to use them, the more we need #democracy to step in. What if a new generation of #antitrust laws, instead of breaking up and the emerging online utilities, created a pathway to more democratic ownership?"
(DIR) Post #AIh2pgBQghQmGUQ1vU by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:51:34Z
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This reminds me of what I read in the #Platform Society. https://mastodon.technology/@Argus/103392528793222491Network effects tend to generate monopolies.
(DIR) Post #AIh2pgkWaDVI1Kq3d2 by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:56:55Z
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"The ' cooperativism' part is about an ownership model for labor and logistics platforms or online marketplaces that replaces the likes of #Uber with cooperatives, communities, cities, or inventive #unions. These new structures embrace the technology to creatively reshape it, embed their values, and then operate in support of local economies."
(DIR) Post #AIh2piL4foKmwywlEm by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-14T03:57:38Z
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"Seriously, why does a village in Denmark or a town like Marfa in rural West Texas have to generate profits for some 50 people in Silicon Valley if they can create their own version of Airbnb? Instead of trying to be the next #SiliconValley, generating profits for the few, these cities could mandate the use of #cooperative #platform, which could maximize use value for the community."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pj6DqW33JD0Pj6 by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-15T03:35:42Z
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"Political scientist Elinor Ostrom reminded us that aspiring to create #alternatives without rigorous study is a pipe dream, a vain hope. Being realistic about cooperative culture is essential. From the history of #cooperatives in the United States, we learned that they are indeed able to offer a more stable income at a dignified workplace."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pjotARmFXju5Lc by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-15T03:36:08Z
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"While the necessary enthusiasm of #makers doesn't always sit well with justifiably skeptical scholars, their dialogue is important. Jointly, they could rewrite the Rochdale principles for the #digitaleconomy, for instance. Education is an essential cornerstone of platform #cooperativism."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pkee41B48G7Q1I by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-15T22:06:24Z
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The Seven #Cooperative Principles, derived from the 1844 #Rochdale Principles as adopted by the International Co-Operative Alliance in 1955, by Susie Cagle
(DIR) Post #AIh2plSH5UsOcBL3NQ by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-15T22:16:56Z
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So... is there a #coopcoin?
(DIR) Post #AIh2pmAES42QoVu9tQ by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2022-04-22T02:24:27Z
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@derek Delayed response, but ... I attended a panel exploring the concept of a "co-op coin" at Open 2018 in London. The video of the panel is here:https://yewtu.be/watch?v=y3S7L-UinN4#Open2018
(DIR) Post #AIh2pmwRYobRE2Sf2W by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-15T22:21:44Z
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I am so pleased about finding this book. It fills in the gaps. For the past few years I've been worried about #neoliberalism but haven't been able to find many discussions of solutions, apart from #automation and #ubi. (See "Inventing the Future".) #cooperatives seem like concrete things I can start applying, joining.
(DIR) Post #AIh2pokop0UaqZ2PCK by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T00:42:24Z
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Next quotes are from "Renaissance" Now byDouglas Rushkoff#coops
(DIR) Post #AIh2pqM4rxtFoPTfua by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T00:44:21Z
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"#Industrialism replaced the peer-to-peer economy of the late Middle Ages. Skilled workers were shunned in favor of low-cost assembly-line laborers. ""...Where territorial expansion once supplied corporations with new room for growth, in the digital age the only new surface area is human time, #awareness, and #data."
(DIR) Post #AIh2prvZ1Vs0gl5WrY by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T01:36:58Z
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Next Notes and Quotes are from "Old Exclusion in Emergent Spaces" by Juliet B. Shor
(DIR) Post #AIh2ptQRSCADKoXhdA by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T01:38:47Z
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""The #timebank is a volunteer-run and -lead organization that allows people to trade labor services on a purely egalitarian basis. All types of services are welcome, so long as they are legal, and the time bank has a wide diversity of offerings. They are all valued in terms of the time it takes to provide them, irrespective of the market value of the service; an hour of a lawyer or a plumber's time is valued at the same rate of a dog walker or someone offering a ride to the airport."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pvBGvZDYmLScGO by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T01:41:19Z
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(We funded a #timebank project at #Counterpart last year. I need to review the outputs.)
(DIR) Post #AIh2pwv2StQAAZsgEq by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T01:47:50Z
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"Similarly in the #foodswap, people prepare foods in bulk and bring them to trade with others preparations. There is no cost to participate. Here, also, everyone's food is valued more or less equally, whatever its cost in terms of materials or labor; food can be exchanged at a one-to-one ratio for a roughly equivalent size."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pyH3QWcqN9BmC0 by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-18T01:49:09Z
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"Our third site, the #makerspace, is also a place that attempts to create an open, accessible site for people to learn to use a group of collectively own tools, and become creative "makers". The site offers classes and membership as well as Lively community of highly engaged individuals."
(DIR) Post #AIh2pzlZsWdT06TfPM by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:05:08Z
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Next notes on #cooperatives are from "From Open Access to Digital Commons"By David Bollier
(DIR) Post #AIh2q1HsDw3ziYayO0 by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:08:09Z
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"#OVN, open value networks, are attempts to enable bounded networks of participants to carry out #crowdfunding, #crowdsourcing of knowledge, and #cobudgeting..." examples "such as #Enspiral and #Sensorica have been described as a operating system for new kind of organization and a pilot project for the new economy. These enterprises consist of digital platforms that facilitate new modes of decentralized and self-organized government, production, and livelihoods among members of ... communities"
(DIR) Post #AIh2q37JQAntONfZCa by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:15:15Z
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"Three Essential Building Blocks for Your #PlatformCooperative"By Janelle Orsi
(DIR) Post #AIh2q4Xw6fh7pF8LL6 by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:18:25Z
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"First, platforms are us: platforms aren't just software applications and the companies that administer them. What gives a #platform value, in most cases, the community of users that employ the platform, along with the networks, data, and ideas they create. In other words, what makes platforms so valuable is what we put into them."
(DIR) Post #AIh2q6KBUlsnLAiOBM by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:21:03Z
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"Second, platforms don't need to be treated as #commodities: it's easy to develop a platform of fetish as a result of their seemingly magical potential to create filters. Yet all along, it is the users themselves, and the rent they paid to the platform companies, that enabled the billion dollar valuations."
(DIR) Post #AIh2q7plsokA1QV83U by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:23:07Z
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" #Cooperatives, however, exist to provide benefits to their members, and they do so by not charging friends to begin with. Who would make no sense for a cooperative to charge excessive fees to users. It would just end up paying the fees back to the same users in dividends later."
(DIR) Post #AIh2q9QJyPZex4bpfE by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:25:05Z
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"In the meantime, we can install strong protections that defend our cooperative from even our own habitual ways of thinking. Fortunately, cooperatives come with at least two pre-installed protections, which are broken into cooperative legal structures. First, money doesn't buy power in a #cooperative; Cooperative members elect the board of directors on a one-member one-vote basis."
(DIR) Post #AIh2qAmguj3vAk5DAe by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:27:56Z
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"Second, money doesn't buy profits in a #cooperative: cooperative members may receive dividends, but the dividends are calculated in direct proportion to money spent by or earned by each member not on the basis of how much money has anyone had the privilege to invest. These are powerful protections in a world where money seems to buy power and the profits everywhere else."
(DIR) Post #AIh2qCApkRy5TuO0RM by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:36:08Z
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"Beyond those pre-installed protection Schneider urged a few other principles be embedded into Cooperative bylaws and policies. Here are my three big building blocks: prevent the platform from being sold. It is critical to adopt a strong safeguards against the potential for the platform and they have its major assets to be sold into for-profit structures."
(DIR) Post #AIh2qDW8kibbeHMXI0 by Argus@mastodon.technology
2020-05-31T20:36:26Z
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"A decision to sell major assets of the require a fight result of approval, such as by 80% of members, after what would hopefully be a long public conversation about alternatives."
(DIR) Post #AIh2xccNpLKTWYoVFI by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2022-04-22T02:26:01Z
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@derek You might also be interested in the Open Credit Network, which I believe was co-founded by the some of the people driving that panel discussion at Open 2018:https://opencredit.network/about/