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Participation in Pro-Am activities is heavily slanted towards well- educated, middle class people with incomes above £30,000 per year. There are some exceptions to this: fishing, for example, is largely a working class pastime. In some activities – volunteering for example – the class balance is more mixed.
Michel Bauwens launched the observatory, curation efforts, and p2p analysis as a key lever for social change, which was at the origin of the launch of the P2P Foundation as a formal organization, with the help of James Burke. "Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global ...
* Book: Finite and Infinite Games. by James P. Carse. MacMillan/NY, 1986 URL = Review Bobby Matherne: "This reminds me of the Radical Therapy Conference in Madrid, Iowa in 1977 where I played volleyball without keeping score. It was really more fun because ...
- Mobility and Flexibility
- Access to Means of Coercion
- Access to Food and Other Resources
- Sharing
- Sanctions on The Accumulation of Personal Possessions
- The Transmission of Possessions Between People
- Leadership and Decision-Making
In all these six societies nomadism is fundamental. Thereare no fixed dwellings, fixed base camps, fixed stores, fixed hunting or fishingapparatus-such as stockades or weirs-or fixed ritual sites to constrainmovements. People live in small camp units containing usually a dozen or twopeople and moving frequently. These small nomadic camp units are a...
Another important factor in this context is the accesswhich all males have to weapons among the !Kung, Hadza, Mbuti and Batek.Hunting weapons are lethal not just for game animals but also for people. There are serious dangers in antagonising someone: he might choose simply tomove away but if he feels a strong sense of grievance that his rights have...
I have already discussed how, within the generalpattern of nomadic movement, individuals are able to avoid constraint by theirfreedom to detach themselves from others at a moment's notice withouteconomic or other penalty. But let us now look more closely at the rightswhich individuals enjoy without which such action would not be practicable.What ar...
The genuine equality of opportunity that individuals enjoy in theiraccess to resources, limited only by the division of labour between the sexes,does not, of course, ensure equality of yield. The quantities of all the variousitems which individuals obtain, either on their own or jointly with otherpeople, vary greatly depending on skill, on luck, on...
Clothing, tools, weapons,smoking pipes, bead ornaments and other similar objects are personally heldand owned. At least in the case of the three African societies, they are in generalrelatively simple objects, made with skill but not elaborately styled or decoratedand not vested with any special significance. They can be made or obtainedwithout gre...
Hadza use a distinctive methodfor transmitting such personally owned objects between people which hasprofound consequences for their relationships. In any large camp men spendmost of their time gambling with one another, far more time than is spentobtaining food. They gamble mainly for metal-headed hunting arrows, bothpoisoned and non-poisoned, but...
In these societies there are either no leaders at all orleaders who are very elaborately constrained to prevent them from exercisingauthority or using their influence to acquire wealth or prestige.12 A Hadza campat any particular time is often known by the name of a well-known man thenliving in it. But thisindicates only that the man is well enough...
* Book: Infinite and Finite Games, by James P. Carse. URL = Description Don Tipping: "The book Infinite and Finite Games, by James P. Carse, lays out a brilliant synthesis of win/lose game-theoretic and how much of our decision-making process is informed by the rules/agreements of the game we are playing..
Co-governance involves the principle of subsidiarity—taking decisions at the lowest possible level of authority and creating new checks and balances on the overall decision-making activities of the state. The inclusion of people in the decisions that directly affect them formalizes the process of just governance and democratic oversight by ...
Predistribution. A term coined by Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker, pre-distribution focuses on market reforms to stimulate a more democratic distribution of economic power before government enforces redistributional strategies through taxes or benefits. While capitalism takes inequality as the cost of doing business and leaves its ...
