Dependence - Livelihood, infrastructure, dual power

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Updated: 19jul2021

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Although meet.coop is a coop-commons practice, and part of an emergent, transformative coop-commons economy, there are dependencies on the wider, prior, hegenmonic system that cannot be escaped. Any commons is in a dance - a struggle - with that hegemonic system. Thus, the practice of a commons at the present time is a practice dual power. The pressure bears quite directly in a couple of areas: livelihood and contribution, and provisioning of material infrastructure.

Livelihood and contribution

• wage work

• voluntary contribution

• fair wage. See also Fiat money, mutual credit, fair wage, sweat equity

• labour markets, livelihood, subsistence. See also Contributions.

• See also: Livelihood, privilege and contribution

Material infrastructure and provisioning

• Servers

• Networks

• Capitalist markets and provisioning

• See also: Platform spaces

The dance of provisioning - Dual power

Struggle between an economy of commoning . . within an emergent ’new social economy' grounded in contributions in 'the mutual sector' . . in contradictory relationship (a dance) with the hegemonic colonial-capitalist economy: commodity production and exchange, State provision, consumerist household economy.

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