Ah, the local bookstore. I was in KMart yesterday to pick up a prescription, so I wandered the book/magazine aisle for a few minutes. A pretty humbling few minutes it was.
-- rec -- On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Ah... the Commons! > > The "Little Red Hen" story is about a generous creature who tries to help > create or enrich the Commons and ultimately must retreat to a selfish > position because noone else will participate. > > Who here is as excited about contributing to or grooming the quality and > value of the Commons as they are about benefiting from it, extracting from > it? "WHERES MY FREE LUNCH?!" we chant! > > In Northern NM many of us still live on acequia systems... a commons built > by the people for the people and used by the people and maintained by the > people. On any ditch there are those who spend the winter sharpening > their tools to be ready for "ditch cleaning day" in the spring and there > are those who manage not to even have tools much less sharp ones to help > make sure the ditch holds water and runs clean and easy. > > But *everyone* on the ditch wants their water. Oddly the ones most likely > to be resentful when there isn't enough water, to blame those upstream for > "taking too much" and those downstream for "not deserving" are likely to be > the same one's whose tools are not sharp on ditch cleaning day. > > To be fair, I know that there are many here who contribute code, > documentation, scholarly papers, etc. to the Commons... but these are often > the folks most willing to pay subscriptions, to buy articles, to contribute > to public radio, etc.? Or am I wrong? > > - Steve > > Well, my point wasn't really related to the price. It's more about >> cost:benefit, or perhaps low hanging fruit. The cops tell us to lock >> our doors, not because locks keep out serious criminals, but because it >> puts a tiny hurdle in front of the lazy opportunist criminals. >> >> Seeing the bootlegs so high up in the page rank is what makes it >> interesting, to me. It's so _easy_ to steal. That's what brings the >> subject so much closer to conversations about "the commons" or the >> public good. >> >> At what point does ubiquity _force_ membership in the commons? >> >> Arlo Barnes wrote at 04/18/2013 12:19 PM: >> >>> But it sounds like it is out of your price range, at least for now. The >>> author (nor the >>> publisher<http://www.antipope.**org/charlie/blog-static/2009/** >>> 03/reminder-why-theres-no-**tipjar.html<http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder-why-theres-no-tipjar.html> >>> >) >>> gets no money from you checking the book out of the library, so what are >>> they losing from you pirating the book? Not that I am suggesting that is >>> what you *should* do - it is an individual decision, after all - but I >>> always find it interesting what people consider their 'boundary' and why. >>> >> >> > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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