Michel Bauwens
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Peer-to-peer is not a form of equality matching... it is not based on reciprocity. It follows the adage:Each contributes according to his capacities and willingness, and each takes according to his needs.
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Peer-to-peer is a holopticon rather than a panopticon, meaning that knowledge is not gathered to a single person or elite group, but rather, is distributed with the aim of reducing information asymmetry.
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Peer-to-peer is a robust decentralized system boasting robust ways to work around predetermined routes if network resources fail.
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Peer-to-peer is defined by anti-credentialism, which is to say, because the internet protocols are 'permissionless' anyone can participate.
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Peer-to-peer is processes happening over distributed networks, networks in which individuals have a certain degree of agency.
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The Sharing economy is an epoch-making replacement to industrial capitalism giving rise to a historically novel mode of production, governance, and property that is poised to overhaul our political economy in unprecedented ways.
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The Sharing economy is not against money, per se, but money is not the basis of its incentive and resource allocation. That role is played by 'social relations'.