"The commons movement is a reaction to
exploitative free market capitalism. It rejects the notion that
resources, spaces and other assets are purely a means to wealth. It
condemns the privatization of public works, such as the parking meters
in Chicago, which allows the sovereign wealth fund that controls it to
increase the rates.
When an economy allocates wealth to private
entities, Bollier says, those property rights inevitably get
consolidated until a few large institutions control its means.
Instead, he says, we need to protect the commons with rules that bar
individual ownership of that property. It is not, however, a space that
is left as a free-for-all; it still has regulations and state
recognition that prevent private groups from exploiting it."
This is where you gauge the value of your economy not on some amount of goods bought and sold over a year, but how well the community is doing.
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