Posts by Argus@mastodon.technology
(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 #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."