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The Economist On The Economics of Sharing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-kindergarten-teacher-was-right dept.

RCulpepper writes "The Economist, reliably the most insightful English-language news publication, discusses the economics of sharing, from OSS programmers' sharing time, to P2P users' sharing disk space and bandwidth. " True indeed (about The Economist, I have to remember to renew my subscription); one of the main supports for the article comes from Yochai Benkler latest piece, which is excellent.

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  1. in-crowd by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "reliably the most insightful English-language news publication"

    What? They're reliably the most right-wing propagandistic tool of international corporatism. They might smell new profits in P2P now, build it up before they attack it for communistic excess. I remember them saluting the Taliban as they rolled into Kabul, bringing "order" and "stability" to the region. They brought Osama, too. And no apologies from the Economist for cheerleading the thugs.

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  2. Re:Imagine a different kind of sharing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and unicorns shat money and free textbooks for the kids.

  3. The rest are just worse. by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Their Taliban and Iraq invasion editorial enthusiasm, not mistakes at all, reveals their true ideology: multinational corporatism, best represented by global energy companies. That includes nuclear power - and weapons - and oil, coal and other lethal pollution. Their idea of "free markets" is that corporations shouldn't have to pay to own a market. And the role of government is corporate welfare to indemnify risk for the biggest and sloppiest, and "national defense" to underwrite the entire edifice of fear, destruction and extortion.

    They're better than the rest of the "journalism" at their scale of distribution. Because all at their scale are house organs for multinational corporatism. At least read them after penetrating their cryptofascist bias, to scale/translate their spin and get a bearing on where their facts are coming from. I prefer the Financial Times - they're less coy about their corporatism, they're daily, and they're actually pink.

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