March 25, 2012

Central currencies vs peer-to-peer

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Central currencies vs peer-to-peer

Doug Rushkoff believes central currencies and big corporations were invented to repress peer-to-peer production. And their time is now up.

It’s not the 99% who need to retrain themselves in order to get jobs. It’s the 1% who need to face the fact that their 600-year workaround of the value creation has reached the very endpoint of diminishing returns. They need to consider whether they might actually make more money at this stage of the game by helping people create value instead of actively preventing it.

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Google translates compliments well… but strangles a lot of stuff!

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I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.

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Central currencies vs peer-to-peer

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