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Coding Tutorials. CODE BOOTCAMP. 11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy. As “death star platforms” such as Airbnb and Uber continue their pursuit of global domination, an alternative is rising in its wake.
Platform cooperatives, which share the value they create with the users they depend on, are on the rise. As Shareable co-founder Neal Gorenflo writes in How Platform Co-ops Can Beat Death Stars Like Uber to Create a Real Sharing Economy, “Platform coops combine a cooperative business structure with an online platform to deliver a real-world service.” Gorenflo asks, “What if Uber was owned and governed by its drivers? What if Airbnb was owned and governed by its hosts?” We don't have to wait to find out. 1. Fairmondo is a digital, co-operative version of eBay, where sellers on the platform are also its owners. To scale globally, the Fairmondo team plans to create an international network of country-based co-ops feeding into the Fairmondo platform. 2. Stocksy is a stock photo site where contributing photographers are also owners. 3. 4.
Photo: Nancy Xu (CC-BY) Steem Power and Governance, Part 1: Centralization and Decentralization — Steemit. In this multi-part series, titled Steem Power and Governance, I will explain in detail how the distribution of Steem Power (often referred to as vesting shares, or vests) influences the Steem system of government.
I will describe the ideals behind this relationship and elucidate how Steem deviates from these ideals by examining the actual distribution and application of governing power in the Steem network (which I will often refer to as the steemosphere). I will explore positive and negative consequences of the current situation of governance as I perceive them, then further suggest remedies to the problems I identify. Finally, I will give predictions for the future of Steem governance under several different models for power diffusion, relating these models to the potential for Steem's continued success.
Whales are the Most Visible Steem Power Players Nearly everyone reading this article likely stumbled on it by navigating the website at steemit.com. Journal articles. Arvidsson, A.
& Bonini, T. (2013). Valuing Audience Passions. From Smythe to Tarde. European Journal of Cultural Studies (accepted and forthcoming)De Filippi, P., Hassan, S. (2014), Measuring Value in Commons-based Ecosystem : bridging the gap between the Commons and the Market, in Lovink, G., Tkacz, N. (eds.) The MoneyLab Reader. A New Kind of Economic Philosophy: Network Economies of Abundance. Blockchain technology, as revolutionary as it is, is perhaps most revolutionary in exposing the corner of a whole new philosophy of economics that can be formulated as a Network Economics of Abundance.
Not just a new economic theory, but a new philosophy of economics is required because the entirety of existing economic theory has been constructed around the assumption of scarcity, and reconfiguring our economic thought around abundance instead as a central parameter requires rethinking economics so profoundly as to be a new philosophical position that is outside the field of economics.
Thus, it is timely to articulate a Philosophy of Abundance. Many different pieces have been emerging in the world that can be assembled into a description and future vision for this Network Economies of Abundance (Figure 1). Shifting from the Labor Economy to the Actualization Economy First considering Paradigms, two positions can be articulated.
First is Traditional Economies. How To Buy Your First Bitcoin Or Ethereum.
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