Peer Money

That's the title of today's post at P2P Foundation Blog.

the cost of inputs, even in physical production, is not just a given but itself a dependent variable that can be affected by peer organization.

Rather than there being an impermeable dividing line between qualitatively distinct categories of market and peer production, it is more accurate to say that physical production can become more “peer-like,” even when some aspects of it are governed by market exchange, as the costs of physical production fall. The difference between cognitive and physical production, and between free speech and free beer, is one of degree rather than of kind.

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