Autotroph
Organism that makes its food from sunlight
what abundance is, what ownership means, and the inherited categories we have to unlearn to see either.
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For the Producers…Six essays on collaboration, ownership, and the work to come
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Kelso’s DiscoveryBinary economics, the ESOP, and the question of who owns what
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A Celestial Emporium of Human InventionBorges, Foucault, and the categories we inherit
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The People’s ShareAbundance, automation, and the question that will define this century
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In What MeasureValue, labor, and the things we count
the material case — the energy is already arriving; the open question is at what scale and under whose hand.
enclosure, from the English fields to the data center, and the old right it violates.
past distribution to control — who holds the machines, and who is in the room when they decide.
what abundance is for, what it must not consume, and who else counts — other creatures, the earth, the minds we are now making.
not to cope with the machines, nor to beg from the people who own them, but to own them in common and govern them in the open — and to keep, at the center, a space where a person is still free.