Capitalism is making way for the age of free Jeremy Rifkin https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/capitalism-age-of-free-internet-of-things-economic-shift An increasingly streamlined and savvy capitalist system will continue to operate at the edges of the new economy, finding sufficient vulnerabilities to exploit, primarily as an aggregator of network services and solutions, allowing it to flourish as a powerful niche player. But it will no longer reign. Hundreds of millions of people are already transferring bits and pieces of their lives from capitalist markets to the emerging global collaborative commons, operating on a ubiquitous internet-of-things platform. The great economic paradigm shift has begun.
From an amazon summary of the Zero Marginal Cost Society.. " The plummeting of marginal costs is spawning a hybrid economy―part capitalist market and part Collaborative Commons―with far reaching implications for society, according to Rifkin. Hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives to the global Collaborative Commons. Prosumers are plugging into the fledgling IoT and making and sharing their own information, entertainment, green energy, and 3D-printed products at near zero marginal cost. They are also sharing cars, homes, clothes and other items via social media sites, rentals, redistribution clubs, and cooperatives at low or near zero marginal cost. Students are enrolling in free massive open online courses (MOOCs) that operate at near zero marginal cost. Social entrepreneurs are even bypassing the banking establishment and using crowdfunding to finance startup businesses as well as creating alternative currencies in the fledgling sharing economy. In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition, and "exchange value" in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by "sharable value" on the Collaborative Commons
Comment: JD: But so long as we keep bolstering the Big Data, and centralized server industry.. the hybrid will be in dominated by the Besoz, musks, and gates of the world.. They support "adanigiri", because that is how the hard infrastructure will support soft infrastructure. So it is not enough to reduce "marginal costs" in our Alternatives Marketing, and solidarity Economics, it is more important to re-structure the Algorithms that promote centralized and big data computing..
the idea is to put together a coop of disillusioned techies, and coders who can work on such projects. The idea is most of our organisations do spend money on their data and information systems.. if this can be moved to this or similar coops, it can help finance the movement towards alternative/Solidarity based IT programming...
Ashimda : But frame it in way that it should be able to reinforce the ethical idea that Shape the boundaries of solidarity economics and the transactions with capitalist economy