Mark Holmquist wrote: > workers owning the means of production > is an interesting idea, to be sure :)
Just to be clear, what I propose is not Worker-Owned in the traditional sense. Instead, I am talking about the Means of Production being "Consumer-Owned", or you might say "User-Owned". This causes Profit to be undefined because the consumers as investors+owners accept the Product itself as the ROI, and so there is no sale*, making Price and Cost the same. (*) There would be sales of surplus to non-owners, and we will even collect Profit from those latecomers, but must treat that as the Payer's Investment, causing all Users to incrementally gain the co-ownership they need to control the products they need, and to avoid paying Profit in the future. Sincerely, Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com
