http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/05/31/peer-production-economy/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:57:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/05/31/peer-production-economy/#comment-12670 Mike Linksvayer » Freedom Lunches Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:25:40 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/05/31/peer-production-economy/#comment-12670 [...] Another excellent post from Tim Lee (two of many, just subscribe to TLF): The oft-repeated (especially by libertarians) view that there’s no such thing as a free lunch is actually nonsense. Civilization abounds in free lunches. Social cooperation produces immense surpluses that have allowed us to become as wealthy as we are. Craigslist is just an extreme example of this phenomenon, because it allows social cooperation on a much greater scale at radically reduced cost. Craigslist creates an enormous amount of surplus value (that is, the benefits to users vastly exceed the infrastructure costs of providing the service). For whatever reason, Craigslist itself has chosen to appropriate only a small portion of that value, leaving the vast majority to its users. [...] [...] Another excellent post from Tim Lee (two of many, just subscribe to TLF): The oft-repeated (especially by libertarians) view that there’s no such thing as a free lunch is actually nonsense. Civilization abounds in free lunches. Social cooperation produces immense surpluses that have allowed us to become as wealthy as we are. Craigslist is just an extreme example of this phenomenon, because it allows social cooperation on a much greater scale at radically reduced cost. Craigslist creates an enormous amount of surplus value (that is, the benefits to users vastly exceed the infrastructure costs of providing the service). For whatever reason, Craigslist itself has chosen to appropriate only a small portion of that value, leaving the vast majority to its users. [...]

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