Post #4347244
2026-08-02 02:52 UTC
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@nikoleavic@fe.disroot.org 2026-08-02 16:01
@floridamarx@mastodon.social It is when the economic “bubble” created in the States, no? And people of course got poorer and destroyed global economy. What I and others are afraid of the data centers and Technofeudalism is going on right now, and not only that. :-(
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@adam_wysokinski@fediscience.org 2026-08-02 16:42
@floridamarx@mastodon.social Finland is on the right track: https://mymodernmet.com/helsinki-finland-oodi-library-royalties/
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@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au 2026-08-03 10:18
@floridamarx@mastodon.social I've imagined something similar, but going a step further. Imagine that tenant-owned housing cooperatives are the norm. So you rent a house or an apartment from a housing co-op. By virtue of being a tenant, you're also a co-owner. Now let's take it a step further. The apartments come fully furnished. So when you first move out of home, you don't need to buy a couch, and a TV, and a fridge, and a washing machine. A bit like a hotel, that stuff will be there when you move in. If you move house, you don't need a removalist. You just leave your old furniture and appliances for the next person. They'll be set up at the new place when you move in. If you decide you don't like your couch, you can swap it for a different one. Perhaps communal building amenities, like a games room with pool tables or office facilities like printers and photocopiers, could be standard? Perhaps you could have a library of stuff at each building? Or perhaps you could have the co-ops provide various digital services for residents, like emails and a Fediverse instance? Let's go a step further. These co-ops could be members of a "co-op of co-ops". So you might have 100 housing co-ops operate a furniture manufacturing and repair workshop. And perhaps an appliance manufacturing factory? And these co-ops could be members of co-ops further up the chain of production. So the furniture workshops might be a member of a co-op of co-ops that operates a sawmill, which in turn is a member of a co-op of co-ops timber plantation? Likewise, with the libraries. You could have libraries that are themselves members of libraries. So say you're a member of a local library that carries musical instruments. It might have the regular stuff, like pianos, guitars, keyboards, drums, violins, etc. But say you really wanted to borrow a harpsichord. Specifically a harpsichord. Your local library doesn't have one normally. But your library is a member of a "library of libraries" for musical instruments. That library of libraries might have a harpsichord, which they lend to your library, which they lend to you. Now let's combine the two ideas. Let's suppose the libraries (and libraries or libraries) are members of co-ops of co-ops. So the music instrument library is a member of a co-op of co-ops that manufactures musical instruments, which is a member of our co-op of co-ops sawmill from earlier, which is a member of our co-op of co-ops timber plantation. Through federation, you could basically have a democratic library/sharing economy that operates all the stages of production right back to primary production. That's a whole economy reoriented around borrowing stuff, repairing stuff as needed, only using resources to manufacture more when needed, while giving everyone access to stuff as obscure as a harpsichord any time they want...