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Donnie Maclurcan: The (En)Rich List A Wealth of Inspiration!

Design, Economics/True Cost, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience
Donnie Maclurcan
Donnie Maclurcan

The (En)Rich List celebrates a wealth of inspirational individuals. Collectively, the people highlighted throughout this website present a rich tapestry that points to globally prosperous and sustainable futures.

Seven of us from the Post Growth Institute spent months defining and refining this list. We were motivated by the way mainstream media often notes achievement: by celebrating material and monetary wealth. Take, for example, the Forbes Rich List, released each March, which showcases the world’s wealthiest billionaires.

For us, there are additional ways ‘richness’ can play out, be measured, and be celebrated. The people on this list represent wealth that cannot be defined by a dollar value.  Learn more.

 

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Michel Bauwens: Non-Capitalist (Peer to Peer) Techno-Utopianism

#OSE Open Source Everything, Money, P2P / Panarchy
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens — Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms

Part 5 of Kevin Carson's Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real

One of the most useful non-Marxist schools is the post-capitalist model of commons-based peer production, which inclues that of Michel Bauwens of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives.

Late capitalism, Bauwens writes (with Franco Iacomella), is beset by two main structural irrationalities: artificial abundance and artificial scarcity.

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Sepp Hasslberger: P2P Foundation Progress Report

P2P / Panarchy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

The P2P foundation is building the knowledge base and the commons that may form the core of a new kind of society further down the road…

The P2P/F Ecosystem

As of 2016, the P2P Foundation’s structure has been reorganized around three interdependent operational hubs: the Foundation itself, Commons Transition and the P2P Lab.

To know more about our recent achievements, read our 2015 review, or click here for more.

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Robert James Beckett: Evgeny Morozov Calls Out Silicon Valley on Basic Income – Empty Words

Money, P2P / Panarchy
Robert James Beckett
Robert James Beckett

Silicon Valley talks a good game on ‘basic income’, but its words are empty

The radical idea of handing cash to citizens regardless of whether they work has taken root in Europe. Now America’s tech elite is backing the concept – but why?

Basic income, therefore, is often seen as the Trojan horse that would allow tech companies to position themselves as progressive, even caring – the good cop to Wall Street’s bad cop – while eliminating the hurdles that stand in the way of further expansion. Goodbye to all those cumbersome institutions of the welfare state, employment regulations that guarantee workers’ rights or subversive attempts to question the status quo with regards to the ownership of data or the infrastructure that produces it.

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Michel Bauwens: Top 10 P2P Trends

P2P / Panarchy
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Top 10 P2P Trends of 2015

Perhaps the main negative development in the field of p2p, and the commons, was the abandoning of the transformative change program by Syriza, which highlights the failure of the traditional Left to believe in its own promise for transition. This points to a strong need for a renewal of politics around a Commons Transition program. It is therefore particularly heartening to see the simultaneous creation this year of several local commons groups, such as Assemblies and Chambers of the Commons. There is much to rejoice in the list below. There is now a palette of p2p-based solutions that can be used by those that are serious about reconstructing our world with distributed infrastructures, shared resources and commons, and livelihoods around such engagements.

List Below the Fold

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