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Month: December 2017
It’s a bit irritating when spares websites just sell the entire, brand new product. Not really what I’m looking for when I go to a spare parts website…
I took a set of digital kitchen scales to the local Restart Party yesterday, and had a go at fixing them with lots of great tips and advice from Gavin, a Restart volunteer. Couldn’t get them working, but I picked up some good tips in the process.
Prosperity itself transcends material concerns. It isn’t just about earning more and having more. It has vital social and psychological dimensions. To do well is in part about our ability to give and receive love, to enjoy the respect of our peers, to contribute useful work, to feel secure, to have a sense of belonging and trust in our community. Prosperity consists in our ability to participate meaningfully in the life of society. All the things, in short, that had gone missing for ordinary people over recent decades.
With the UK’s 6,815 co-ops employing 226,000 people, the co-operative sector employs 0.7% of the UK’s workforce, making it a significant player in the economy.
Open source is an excellent example of how something that does not directly increase GNP can fuel real prosperity[…] It is a stunning example of how both the market and the state can be bypassed by cooperative creativity. The barrier between user and provider is eroded; a direct agreement between society members is maintained… Marx would have been a Firefox user.
Upstream, makers of great podcasts on alternative economies, need some new gear to make the podcast. Help them out if you can spare something: https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/upstream-needs-new-equipment-urgently
The pro-capitalism argument of ‘look at these things that it has achieved’ is based on the assumption that these things couldn’t have been achieved under any other system.
I used snap for the first time today, while setting up a demo nextcloud server. All dependencies in one bundle, it was incredibly simple. Has anyone else used it, is there a catch? (aside from the wasted disk space from not sharing dependencies) Pros/cons?
We did a radio show discussing the thoughts raised by our visit to The Glassroom and the idea of a data detox.
https://soundcloud.com/restart-project-1/restart-radio-5-december-2017