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'''How can we organize human solidarity in the p2p age?'''
'''How can we organize human solidarity in the p2p age?'''
One of the most common worries about P2P is that it will erode social rights. The key to understanding P2P solidarity is that P2P is not just a policy offering new solutions for existing problems, but a new system that changes the problems altogether.
Strong calls for income guarantees and social rights are specific to (and historically emerged together with) the system of industrial capitalism we know today, which reduces persons to isolated consumers trading in anonymous marketplaces. In a world of commons, income and social protection are much less problematic because
1) income is less important than access to networks: P2P cause a shift from ownership to sharing and hence from consumption of a good to participation in a network.
2) social protection is more straightforward in a world where everyone depends on one another.
Science fiction? No, actually it is typical for most non-capitalist societies. In many premodern societies social status is at least as important as personal wealth and for example the elderly continue to participate in society instead of being dumped in a retirement home.
It is a common mistake to assess new systems based on the standards of the old. But perhaps the absence of applications of P2P for income generation and social struggle does not signify a shortcoming of P2P but the fact that P2P is already hardwired to foster a society that is open and equal to begin with, thus removing further need for competition, conflict and struggle.




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How can we organize human solidarity in the p2p age?

One of the most common worries about P2P is that it will erode social rights. The key to understanding P2P solidarity is that P2P is not just a policy offering new solutions for existing problems, but a new system that changes the problems altogether.

Strong calls for income guarantees and social rights are specific to (and historically emerged together with) the system of industrial capitalism we know today, which reduces persons to isolated consumers trading in anonymous marketplaces. In a world of commons, income and social protection are much less problematic because 1) income is less important than access to networks: P2P cause a shift from ownership to sharing and hence from consumption of a good to participation in a network. 2) social protection is more straightforward in a world where everyone depends on one another.

Science fiction? No, actually it is typical for most non-capitalist societies. In many premodern societies social status is at least as important as personal wealth and for example the elderly continue to participate in society instead of being dumped in a retirement home.

It is a common mistake to assess new systems based on the standards of the old. But perhaps the absence of applications of P2P for income generation and social struggle does not signify a shortcoming of P2P but the fact that P2P is already hardwired to foster a society that is open and equal to begin with, thus removing further need for competition, conflict and struggle.


Key Articles


Key Books


Background:

  • Esping-Andersen, G. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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