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Bosses play no role in fostering a sense of meaningfulness at work -- but they do have the capacity to destroy it and should stay out of the way, new research shows. 
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Isaac Anderson, a former MakerBot employee, tells a cautionary tale about the perils of venture capital inserting itself in the Open Source community
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The forces that have driven exceptional investment returns over the past 30 years are weakening, and even reversing. It may be time for investors to lower their expectations.
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Economic Armageddon: The sharing economy, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and economic devastation
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Sharing economy companies like Uber and Airbnb aren’t helping local economies — they’re just helping themselves.
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People, not corporations or governments, make things: Labor is what has produced things under every ism in history. The isms just determine who gets paid.
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We must declare Facebook to be independent, and we must plan it and administer it so that it responds to the needs of its citizens around the world.
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Aaron Swartz was one of the pioneers in the struggle to tear down that wall in academia. And the job he did so much to help start is now nearing completion.
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Coming soon: an update Michel Bauwen's 2005 seminal manifesto “P2P and Human Evolution” written by Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis
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The approval of the current Trade Secrets directive would lead to very serious threats for citizens who undercover corporate abuses
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The profit-driven business model of the tech industry treats products primarily as a source of revenue rather than an end in themselves.
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From an in-depth conversation of Robin Murray with Jeremy Gilbert and Andrew Goffey for New Formations magazine: (Note from editor Michel Bauwens: please note that Robin here confuses our concept of Netarchical Capitalism with that of anarcho-capitalism or distributed capitalism) Robin Murray: “Platforms are a new kind of economy, in which you can talk about …
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“We are moving towards a future of smart everything: watches, thermostats and cars. But who controls the technology? Who writes the code and who owns the data? Our generation will reinvent citizenship.” Great presentation, watch it here:
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It can be very confusing to know that you won’t find a decent job, pay off student loans or put in a down payment on a h…
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In this article, we utilize accounting history to demonstrate that modern capitalist accounting has evolved similarly in four prominent countries (France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States) and that this evolution has been in a dangerous direction. Using the Classic Continental European Accounting Theory lens, we show that, since the industrial revolution, capitalist financial accounting and capital calculation have progressed through the same three main stages: static, dynamic and futuristic. We also maintain that this process has permitted an unbridled acceleration of profit recognition, which contributes significantly to financial crises manifestations.
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The human mind evolved to deal with singular threats — a lion jumping out of the bushes or a wildfire spreading through the forest.
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In Capitalism what matters is not whether fictional entities or human beings are making money, but whether decision makers are making money.
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For more than two decades, Douglas Rushkoff has provided incisive commentary on our increasingly connected, digitized, and corporatized world. From Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace to Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back to his newest, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, he’s chronicled both the promise and the peril of of a global society being remade by the Internet and high-tech corporations.dou
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Market movements in the technology sector -- particularly in SaaS tech companies -- are causing a stir among investors. It’s always a challenge to estimate..
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As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” capitalism is the source of everything good in the world, although it's never existed.
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To see just how stupid this “argument” is, we only have to imagine its equivalent being used by apologists for other class systems throughout history.
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The Sharing Economy has to be a genuine form of economic sharing that addresses the power structures and politics that maintain an unjust status quo
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Excerpted from Ursula Huws, who asks the question: “How should political economists understand the new phase of capitalism that is now reaching critical mass? It has several dimensions. First, it brings new areas of life within the orbit of capital, allowing profits to be made from activities that were previously freely shared. Companies like Airbnb, …
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This in turn leads to a third form of socialisation, which we might call ‘civil socialization’.
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