Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1117-1119

As soon as men [sic] accept money as an equivalent for life, the sale of living activity becomes a condition for their physical and social survival. Life is exchanged for survival. Creation and production come to mean sold activity. A man's activity is "productive," useful to society, only when it is sold activity. And the man himself is a productive member of society only if the activities of his daily life are sold activities. As soon as people accept the terms of this exchange, daily activity takes the form of universal prostitution.
The reproduction of daily life
Fredy Perlman
Libcom.org
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The inherent dynamism of competitive markets is bringing costs so far down that many goods and services are becoming nearly free, abundant, and no longer subject to market forces. While economists have always welcomed a reduction in marginal cost, they never anticipated the possibility of a technological revolution that might bring those costs to near zero.
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What makes the social commons more relevant today is that we are constructing an Internet of Things infrastructure that optimizes collaboration, universal access and inclusion, all of which are critical to the creation of social capital and the ushering in of a sharing economy.
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We are … entering a world partly beyond markets, where we are learning how to live together in an increasingly interdependent, collaborative, global commons.
JEREMY RIFKIN
New York Times
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All over the world, people are talking guaranteeing basic incomes for citizens as a viable policy. 

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Half of all Canadians want it. The Swiss have had a referendum on it. The American media is all over it: The New York Times’ Annie Lowrey considered basic income as an answer to an economy that leaves too many people behind, while Matt Bruenig and Elizabeth Stoker of the Atlantic wrote about it as a way to reduce poverty.

The idea is not new.

5 reasons to consider a no-strings-attached, basic income for all Americans  

Alternet / by Lynn Stuart Parramore

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