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9 Working Examples of Platform Cooperatives | MIT Center for Civic Media https://t.co/IdnYNWYU3q via @civicMIT
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Vivalist's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 2:57 PM
"Janelle Orsi of the sustainable economies law center talks about the wider context in which co-ops matter. It's time to change the rules of the game she says, rules that aren't necessarily government rules, but rather rules that are between people.
What rules should we change? The first thing to change is that the people with the most money should get the most money out of something, even if they're not putting labor into something.
The next rule to change is the idea that money equals power, where people who invest the most have the greatest power in the company, even though they're not part of the company.
An alternative would be that money doesn't buy profits and power. That's the only way, she says that we can change this wider issue of inequality.
In cooperatives, surplus goes back to people based on how much they work. And cooperatives typically give one person one vote, so money doesn't equate to power."
More on "Commons" in the interview "Search for Meaning"
http://virtual3.qub.ac.uk/lawapps/searchformeaning/index.html#index
which offer great insights on the perspective offered by a new way of commons.
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